Noval Techniques for Treatment of Femoral Fractures in Dogs

The present study was conducted in two stages. The stage I consisted of study on prevalence of fracture cases in animals at 15 different veterinary hospitals of North-Karnataka region for 4 years. Whereas stage II study was carried out on twenty four clinical cases of dogs which had femoral fracture were randomly divided into three groups viz. group I II and III with eight animals in each group. Group I II and III animals were treated with DCP LCP and IILN techniques respectively. The prevalence of fracture among the different species it was highest in canine (35.66%) species with highest in male dogs (73.01%) and in other species it was with female animals (75.38%). In stage II healing of fractures was studied before operation immediately after operation 30th 60th and 90th post-operative days in 3 groups. Based on clinical haemato-biochemical and radiological findings it was concluded that DCP and dynamic IILN technique was found effective for repair of short oblique/transverse/transverse without dentate and LCP and static IILN technique for long oblique/spiral/transverse dentate/comminuted femoral fractures in canines respectively.