Small horses and ponies can have an ostectomy without an osteotomy of the greater trochanter. As a salvage procedure, this is usually performed in those animals which have the specific injury of a fracture of the capital physis. These patients would not return to function as a riding horse and the procedure may be performed for those animals involved in breeding, milking, and being kept as companion animals. This procedure can also be successfully performed in pigs.Smith, J.S., Chigerwe, M., Kanipe, C. and Gray, S. (2017), Femoral head ostectomy for the treatment of acetabular fracture and coxofemoral joint luxation in a Potbelly pig. Veterinary Surgery, 46: 316-321. doi:10.1111/vsu.12604
Small horses and ponies can have an ostectomy without an osteotomy of the greater trochanter. As a salvage procedure, this is usually performed in those animals which have the specific injury of a fracture of the capital physis. These animals would not return to function as riding horses and the procedure may be performed for those animals involved in breeding, milking, and being kept as companion animals. This procedure can also be successfully performed in pigs.Smith, J.S., Chigerwe, M., Kanipe, C. and Gray, S. (2017), Femoral head ostectomy for the treatment of acetabular fracture and coxofemoral joint luxation in a Potbelly pig. Veterinary Surgery, 46: 316-321. doi:10.1111/vsu.12604
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