A report of left dorsal displacement of the large colon in a tropical horse

作     者：Farhang Sasani Javad Javanbakht Mehdi Ghamsari Mehdi Aghamohammad Hassan 

作者机构：Department of PathologyFaculty of Veterinary MedicineUniversity of TehranTehranIran Department of Clinical ScienceFaculty of Veterinary MedicineUniversity of TehranTehranIran 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第4期

页      面：325-329页

学科分类：090603[农学-临床兽医学] 09[农学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 

基　　金：supported by a grant from Tehran University of Veterinary Medicine by Grant No.1391.4.16 

主　　题：Large colon Horse Pathology Volvulus Laparotomy 

摘      要：We report one such case which was diagnosed intraoperatively as left dorsal colon volvulus due to multiple mesenteric abnormalities.A 17-year-old castrated male horse was taken to the Tehran University Veterinary Hospital for treatment of metacarpal wound accompanied by severe abdominal distension and acute *** treatment and measurement were taken for a month,and the prepared biopsy indicated that the healing trend was ***,prior to discharge,the clinical colic manifestations emerged and the animal suddenly *** large intestine was palpated per rectum and a ventral midline exploratory laparotomy was performed,a complete volvulus of the ascending colon was identified with multiple mesenteric anomalies of unknown *** pathologic changes observed in this study accurately reflect those changes reported in horse with naturally occurring colonic volvulus and can serve as a reference for subsequent studies on attenuating bowel *** present study results can be used to make a scientific assessment of prognosis in the pre-operative,operative,and post-operative management of horses with large colon volvulus.