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KAFKAS UNIVERSITESI VETERINER FAKULTESI DERGISI, vol.15, no.4, pp.505-510, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
This study was performed for the treatment of peroneal paralysis. occurred as a result of iatrogenic injection and/or medicine, with tendon transposition in sheep. Thirty six sheep from a flock with peroneal paralysis occurred following intramuscular injection of a commercial medicine used as metabolic activator were hospitalized for 15 days and medical treatment was applied. After failure of the medical treatment it was decided to perform tendon transposition to 20 sheep with peroneal paralysis. Remaining 16 sheep were received medical therapy for 3 more weeks. Six of these 16 sheep were also subjected to surgical intervention because of unsatisfactory medical treatment results. Others were slaughtered because of clinical deterioration. Following spinal anaesthesia, m. vastus lateralis and m. ext. dig. longus were dissected from their insertio and origos, respectively. Freed ends were adjoined on the dorsal part of m. tensor fascia lata by bringing them side by side and stitched with Locking loop style. Related leg was bandaged for three weeks. Three weeks after the surgical intervention a mild limping with recovered walking style was observed. Two months after the surgery all the animals were walking uneventfully with the exception of two sheep developed an infection as a result of decubitis. Tissue samples taken from sheep sent to slaughterhouse were investigated histopathologically. Histopathological examination revealed residues of the medicine even six weeks after the commercial medicine application. Peroneal nerves and perineural tissues showed degenerative changes and inflammatory cell infiltration. In conclusion this study showed that tendon transposition technique which was previously used in dogs could also be satisfactorily used in sheep with peroneal paralysis.