OBJECTIVE: To evaluate outcomes after percutaneous application of transilial pinning in dogs with seventh lumbar vertebral body fracture with concurrent lumbosacral luxation.
METHODS: We reviewed the medical records of dogs with seventh lumbar vertebral body fracture stabilized with percutaneous transilial pinning that were treated at our hospital between January 2000 and March 2014. Radiographic measurements were used for comparing craniocaudal and ventrodorsal displacement pre- and postoperatively.
Fracture Fixation and Implants
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants - Spine
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the outcome and complications following surgical stabilization of canine tarsocrural luxations.
METHODS: Medical records of dogs which were surgically treated for tarsocrural joint instability between February 2007 and June 2014 were reviewed. Surgical technique, complications and long-term outcome (via questionnaire and Canine Brief Pain Inventory) were assessed.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants
Sacral fracture repair was accomplished in a cat and five dogs using a composite technique consisting of pins and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). In three of the cases, planned traditional iliosacral lag screw fixation was either abandoned or considered inadequate and in the other three, fracture configuration demanded an alternate repair method.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants - Spine
OBJECTIVE: To describe the outcome of bone plate fixation of distal radius and ulna fractures in toy breed dogs treated with conventional bone plates.
METHODS: Records of 15 toy breed dogs with distal radius and ulna fractures were retrospectively reviewed for signalment, method of fixation, complications and clinical and radiographic assessments. A telephone-based owner questionnaire was conducted to determine long-term function and client satisfaction.
Category: Distal Extremities - Fracture Fixation and Implants
OBJECTIVE: To compare a locking plate (LP) with pin and tension-band wire (pin/TBW) for fixation of mid-patellar transverse fractures.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants - Knee
OBJECTIVE: To describe the surgical management by pancarpal arthrodesis for highly comminuted articular fractures of the distal antebrachium in 8 dogs.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective clinical case series.
ANIMALS: Eight dogs.
METHODS: Medical records (2001-2014) of dogs with antebrachial fractures were reviewed and dogs with highly comminuted distal antebrachial fractures were identified. The nature of the injury, surgical management by pancarpal arthrodesis, outcome, and complications were recorded.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants
OBJECTIVE: To critically evaluate whether open fracture fixation is a significant risk factor for latent osteosarcoma development.
STUDY DESIGN: Case-control study.
SAMPLE POPULATION: Dogs undergoing open fracture repair and dogs diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants - Oncology
OBJECTIVE: Our objectives were: 1) to review the complications associated with stabilization of appendicular fractures in cats and small dogs using locking compression plates (LCP), and 2) to identify factors that could influence fixation construct stability.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective clinical study.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective clinical study.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants
OBJECTIVE: To report outcomes in dogs with distal radial osteosarcoma (OSA) treated with metal endoprosthesis limb-sparing surgery and compare outcomes between 2 generations of endoprosthesis.
STUDY DESIGN: Multi-institutional retrospective case series.
ANIMALS: Forty-five dogs with distal radial OSA treated with endoprosthesis and chemotherapy.
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the influence of shock wave therapy (SWT) on radiographic evidence of bone healing after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO).
Category: Fracture Fixation and Implants