Affiliation:
1. Animal Referral Hospital, Canberra, Australia
Abstract
AbstractA 4-year-old, female, neutered, Greyhound cross presented to the Animal Referral Hospital, Canberra, for assessment and surgical correction of a proximally exposed interlocking nail within the left tibia, which was placed 20 months earlier. Removal included the use of a custom-made jig and cortical windowing technique. This method of extraction worked to combine preexisting knowledge from within the human medical field, specifically total hip arthroplasty procedures, while employing a novel extraction tool. At the time of publication, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no similar methods had been described yet.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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