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Case Studies: Shear Fracture | Oral Surgery | Laser Neuter
Shear Fracture Case Study
Shear Fracture
This case is about a young English springer spaniel that was hit by a car and dragged. Surgery was needed because of multiple fractures in it’s left foreleg and the skin was torn away exposing tendons, muscles and fractured bones.
Surgery included extensive cleaning to remove multiple layers of contaminants, insertion of surgical pins to repair the fractured bones and bone anchors. This entire procedure took over 3 hours as our patient arrived at 8:30pm and we left at 3am!
A few minor bandage changes and corrections during rechecks later yields a very healthy and spunky young dog that enjoys chasing squirrels and Frisbees.
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This photo is of our patient who was hit by a car and dragged. The pet’s skin was scraped off as a result and revealed tendons and multiple fractures. Note all the sand and contaminants in multiple layers of tissue, bone and ligaments. |
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This photo shows the extreme nature of the fracture of the metacarpal and radial carpal bones. |
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After intricate cleaning of the site and laser debridement of damaged tissue, we wrapped Acell around the largest of the tendons and slightly re-routed it around the radial carpal shears. |
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Acell is attached to the rough edges of the joint capsule to help establish a new joint capsule. In addition a bone anchor was placed in the distal radius and imbricated with 50# leader line. 4th and 5th metacarpal bones were pinned using 1/8" pins to reduce the fracture. |
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One month later our patient needed no further bandaging and had a slight limp, which dissipated after the fracture was completely healed. |