Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome: a respiratory review

Many decades of selective breeding has resulted in dogs with mediolateral widening of the skull and rostrocaudal shortening of the muzzle without a proportional reduction in soft tissues of the face....

Treatment options for canine hip dysplasia

A diagnosis of hip dysplasia can be made from a set of standard orthogonal hip radiographs (Figure 1). However, it is important to correlate imaging findings with the clinical signs demonstrated by...

A surgical approach to the rabbit patient: part 1

When considering rabbit skin tumours, basal cell tumours (trichoblastomas) were the most frequently diagnosed at 20%, with spindle cell sarcomas at 9.5%, collagen nevi/hamartomas at 8.4%, squamous...

Advances in diagnosis and management of canine insulinoma: a review

The most common clinical signs associated with canine insulinomas are as follows, along with the corresponding percentage of cases (Dunn et al, 1993; Ryan et al, 2021):.

A surgical approach to the reptile patient

The reproductive physiology of reptiles varies depending on the order to which the reptile belongs (Lock, 2000). Oviparous reptiles, such as chelonia, produce eggs, whereas squamates can be oviparous...