PREVALENT SURGICAL AFFECTIONS OF THE THORACIC LIMBS IN EQUINES

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In the present study, 16 animals of equine species were collected from the clinical cases presented to the clinic of the Fac. Vet. Medicine, Edfina. All cases were subjected to clinical examination and surgical interventions under chloral hydrate narcosis. Results indicated that, the most common surgical affections of the thoracic limbs in equines were Hoof crack, fractures, tendinitis and septic arthritis, knuckling at fetlock, ankylosis and dorsal flexion of fetlock joint, sarcoid, fibroma, and hypergranulation tissue in the different parts of the thoracic limbs.