Equine Abdomen Flashcards
Clinical significance of deep fascia
Must be sutured after surgery (holding layer)
2 surgical approaches: paralumbar fossa and flank incision
Paralumbar fossa location
Done on the right side
Cr. To tuber coxae
Cd. To las rib
Ven to transverse processes of lumbar vertebra
What is paralumbar fossa used for?
To deflate the cecum when the horse has cecal tympani
Using Trocar cannula (stab with trocar, leave cannula in)
Flank incision
Done on both sides (usually the right)
Used for ovariectomy and loop colostomy (take part of the colon and attach to skin)
What are the muscles of the abdominal wall?
External abdominal oblique
Internal abdominal oblique
Transversus Abdominis
Rectus Abdominis
External abdominal oblique
O: lat surface of the ribs and thoraco-lumbar fascia
I: tuber coxae and pelvic tendon
Runs caudal ventral
Heaves
Seen in older, emaciated, chronic obstruction pulmonary diseased (COPD) horses
Musculo-tendonous junction becomes hypertrophic and prominent
Internal abdominal oblique
O: Tuber coxae and pelvic tendon
I: last rib, costal cartilages, linea alba, prepubic tendon
Runs cranial ventral
What happens when the IAO and EAO cross?
They create the inguinal area (canal)
Deep inguinal ring
Inside the abdominal cavity
Inguinal/ Scrotal hernia
When IAO and EAO contract, inguinal canal will open up
Small intestine will go through the space causing colic entrapment
Transverse abdominis
O: last ribs and lumbar vertebrae
I: linea alba
Rectus Abdominis
O: 4th-9th costal cartilages and sternum
I: Prepubic tendon and accessory ligament
What will you cut during a surgical incision?
Skin and Linea alba
don’t cut the muscles
What the clinical significance of the left kidney?
Left kidney is more caudal than the right
Edge is rectally palpable
Nephral-splenic ligament
Connects the spleen and the left kidney
CS: potential area for intestinal entrapment/ colic (pelvic flexure)
Where is the stomach and duodenum located?
On the ventral midline slightly to the left
On the right (1 m long)
What abdominal structures are seen on the right?
Liver
Cecum
R. ventral and dorsal colon
What abdominal structures are seen on the left?
L. kidney
Spleen
L. ventral and dorsal colon
What is the order of the GI tract?
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Duodenum
- Jejunum
- Ileum
- Cecum
- Right Ventral colon
- Left ventral colon
- Pelvic Flexure
- Left dorsal colon
- Right dorsal colon
- Transverse colon
- Small colon
- Rectum