Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopyin Equine Practice

Minimally invasive procedures offer several advantages over traditional abdominal and thoracic surgery in the horse: Reduced morbidity, reduced hospitalization, reduced incidence of infections, faster recovery, improved visualization and/or surgical access, and improvement/development of procedures that could not be achieved with open surgery. Indications for laparoscopy in the horse include visual examination, organ biopsy, acute or chronic cholic, cryptorchidectomy, castration, inguinal hernia, ovariectomy, neoplasia, cystic calculi, nephrectomy, ablation of nephrosplenic space, and embryo...

Endoscopic photograph on cover courtesy of Dr. Claude A. Ragle, Washington State University, USA. Endoscopic photographs 2, 5, 6 and 8: Reprinted from Equine Diagnostic and Surgical Laparoscopy, A. T. Fischer, Jr., © 2002, with permission from Elsevier All other photographs courtesy of Dr. Josef Boening, Tierklinik, Münster-Telgte, Germany Fig. 5: Ovarian pedicle transection Fig. 6: Biopsy of lung mass Fig. 8: Transection of mesorchium and vas deferens

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