Stabilisation of a mandibular fracture in a cow by means of a pinless external fixator | Zendy

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Stabilisation of a mandibular fracture in a cow by means of a pinless external fixator

Author(s) -

Lischer C. J.,

Fluri E.,

Auer J. A.

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

veterinary record

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 2042-7670

pISSN - 0042-4900

DOI - 10.1136/vr.140.9.226

Subject(s) - sequestrum , symphysis , medicine , external fixator , mandibular fracture , dentistry , bone healing , radiography , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , orthodontics , surgery , biology , osteomyelitis , oral and maxillofacial surgery , botany , genus

A four months pregnant, four‐year‐old Brown Swiss cow with mandibular fractures of the right horizontal ramus and the symphysis was treated surgically with a new pinless external fixator. Healing was complicated by the sequestration of bone at the fracture site. After the sequestrum had been removed a radiographic examination revealed that the fracture had healed completely.

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