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The Veterinary Record, Vol 146, Issue 13, 373-376
Copyright © 2000 by British Veterinary Association

Resection of the common digital extensor tendon in a gelding

T. M. Booth BVSc, MACVSc, MRCVS1, P. D. Clegg MA, VetMB, PhD, MRCVS1, E. R. Singer DVM, DVSc1, and M. T. Cheeseman BSc, PhD, DVM, MRCVS2

1 Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and Animal Husbandry, University of Liverpool, Leahurst, Neston, South Wirral CH64 7TE
2 Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, Leahurst, Neston, South Wirral CH64 7TE

A four-year-old gelding was lame owing to a chronic septic common digital extensor tendon and sheath. The horse had been treated by open surgical lavage but the sepsis had recurred after three months. Physical, ultrasonographic, cytological and histological examintions confirmed chronic septic tenosynovitis and tendonitis. The entire intrathecal component of the common digital extensor tendon was resected under general anaesthesia and the synovial lining of the sheath was ablated. Postoperatively the horse regained good limb function and became sound.






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