Small Animal surgery: The Thorax

1. introduction
2. rib cage and thoracic cavity
Overview
Instruments and equipment
for thoracic surgery
Pleural space
Pneumothorax
Case 1 / Traumatic pneumothorax
Pleural effusion
Chylothorax
Case 1 / Chylothorax
Pyothorax
Diaphragm. Overview
Diaphragmatic rupture
Case 1 / Complicated radial rupture in a dog
Case 2 / Circumferential avulsion in a cat
Peritoneal-pericardial diaphragmatic hernia
Case 1 / PPDH in a dog
Oesophageal hiatus hernia. Overview
Case 1 / Para-oesophageal hiatus hernia
and gastro-oesophageal intussusception
Rib cage. Overview
Flail chest
3. oesophagus
Overview
Oesophageal foreign bodies. Overview
Case 1 / Foreign body in the caudal thoracic
oesophagus. Oesophagotomy
Case 2 / Foreign body in the caudal thoracic
oesophagus. Gastrotomy
Persistence of the right aortic arch (PRAA)
Case 1 / Persistence of the right aortic arch
(PRAA)
Megaoesophagus. Overview
Idiopathic megaoesophagus.
Oesophagus-diaphragmatic cardioplasty
Case 1 / Megaoesophagus
4. lungs
Overview
Pulmonary neoplasia
Case 1 / Hypertrophic osteopathy
(Pierre Marie syndrome)
Pulmonary abscess
Encapsulated abscess
in the caudal mediastinum
Lung lobe torsion
5. cardiovascular system
Overview
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA).
Overview
PDA. Conventional surgical treatment
Case 1 / Intraoperative rupture of a PDA
Case 2 / Closure with a surgical stapler
Case 3 / PDA. Occlusion using
the Amplatzer Canine Duct Occluder (ACDO)
Pulmonary valve stenosis. Overview
Treatment of pulmonary valve stenosis.
Valvuloplasty
Treatment of pulmonic stenosis.
Transvalvular patch (open patch graft)
Vascular occlusion entry technique.
Complete occlusion of venous return
Cardiac tamponade
Cardiac neoplasms. Overview
6. cranial mediastinum
Overview
Feline thymoma
Tumour in the cranial mediastinum
7. Trachea
Trachea. Overview
Tracheal collapse
Tracheal collapse. Extraluminal cervical
tracheoplasty
Tracheal collapse. Intraluminal
tracheoplasty
8. general techniques
Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery
Thoracic drains
Thoracocentesis
Fixation of tubes and drains
Thoracic radiography
Thoracic cytology
Thoracic endoscopy
Minimally invasive surgery
Interventional radiology
Thoracoscopy. Overview
Thoracotomy. Overview
Lateral thoracotomy
Midline thoracotomy