[Radical surgery (amputation) or conservative treatment (drainage) in cases of septic pedal arthritis and navicular bursitis in cattle (author's transl)].
An observation was carried out with regard to forty-nine cows, which had been treated for a  purulent necrotizing arthritis as a complication of a rear leg. In seventeen cases the pedal joint was drained by means of track made by an electric fraise. In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx. It emerged that from the seventeen drainage-cases nine patients were retained for several laction-periods. Thirty out of the thiry-two cows where a claw-amputation had been performed, were slaughtered within one year. If a cow is not to be retained for several years after treatment, a simple amputation above the coronet is to be recommended.
D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000662:veterinary; D000818:Animals; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D002062:Bursitis / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000601:surgery
Amputatie van de aangetaste klauw of drainage van het klauwgewricht bij een septische podarthritis