title: Avian Soft Tissue Surgery.
abstract: Basic surgical instrumentation for avian soft tissue surgery includes soft tissue retractors, microsurgical instrumentation, surgical loupes, and head-mounted lights. Hemostasis is fundamental during the surgical procedures. The indications, approach, and complications associated with soft tissue surgeries of the integumentary (digit constriction repair, feather cyst excision, cranial wound repair, sternal wound repair, uropygial gland excision), gastrointestinal (ingluviotomy, crop biopsy, crop burn repair, celiotomy, coelomic hernia and pseudohernia repair, proventriculotomy, ventriculotomy, enterotomy, intestinal resection and anastomosis, cloacoplasty, cloacopexy), respiratory (rhinolith removal, sinusotomy, tracheotomy, tracheal resection and anastomosis, tracheostomy, pneumonectomy) and reproductive (ovocentesis, ovariectomy, salpingohysterectomy, cesarean section, orchidectomy, vasectomy, phallectomy) systems are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine and Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, 2108 Tupper Hall, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: guzman@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: David Sanchez-Migallon
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Guzman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000601:surgery*; D003426:Crop, Avian / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures / Q000662:veterinary; D005241:Feathers / Q000601:surgery; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000601:surgery; D005835:Genitalia / Q000601:surgery; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000662:veterinary*; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000662:veterinary; D011531:Proventriculus / Q000601:surgery; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000662:veterinary; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000601:surgery; D012886:Skull / Q000601:surgery; D013249:Sternum / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D013537:Sutures / Q000662:veterinary; D014945:Wound Healing
keywords: Celiotomy; Cloacopexy; Ingluviotomy; Proventriculotomy; Salpingohysterectomy; Tracheal resection and anastomosis