Brain Teaser: Can you solve this puzzle?March 25, 2019 Presentation You need to cut into the colon to remove a foreign body or take a biopsy. Challenge 1) What is the holding layer of the colon—the one to include in the suture line 2) Which suture material is ideal? Which needle is best? 3) Which suture pattern is recommended? Check the answers on the next page.
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Brain Teaser: Can you solve this puzzle?March 11, 2019 Presentation: A toy was found in the jejunum of a nine-month-old Shih Tzu. Challenge: 1) What is the holding layer of the small intestine—the one to include in the suture line? 2) Which suture material is ideal? Which needle is best? 3) Which suture pattern is recommended? Check the answers on the next page.
UC Davis vets remove life-threatening tumor from koi fishOctober 18, 2018The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) veterinary hospital’s Aquatic Animal Health Unit of the Companion Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Service has removed a large tumor from Madonna, a six-year-old female koi fish’s distended abdomen.
Brain Teaser: Can you solve this puzzle?October 17, 2018 Presentation Cystotomy in a five-year-old Rottweiler who had 178 struvite stones. Challenge What is the holding layer—the one to include in the suture line? Which suture material is ideal? Which needle is best? Which suture pattern is recommended? Check your answer on the next page.
