title: Surgical treatment of urethral obstruction due to urolithiasis in male cattle: a review of 85 cases.
abstract: Eighty-five male cattle with urethral obstruction due to urolithiasis were treated by surgery. In most cases local anaesthetic techniques combined with sedation were applied to the dorsally recumbent animals. The penis was transected and transposed in animals with a ruptured urethra. A ruptured bladder was repaired by a paramedian abdominal approach. The bladder was fistulated through the ventral abdominal wall when no alternative treatment was possible. Complications related to the different surgical interventions are described. Only 35.3 per cent of the animals recovered satisfactorily.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Anaesthesiology of Domestic Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gasthuys
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steenhaut
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Moor
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sercu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012421:Rupture; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014522:Urethral Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D014524:Urethral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*