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Removing shirrous cord with ecraseur E: schirrous cord with ecraseur chain around it, F: Vulsellum forceps, G: Ecraseur, H: right hand of operator

Identifier: animalcastration01whit (find matches)
Title: Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: White, George Ransom, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Castration Spaying
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Pig. 57—Schirrous Cord. Showing Skin Incision. B, Old Cicatrix with Imprisoned End ofCord; C, Scrotum; D, Elliptical Skin Incisions tor Ablating the Growth. Animal Casteation 85 Sterilization of Instruments, Cleansing Operators Hands andFwld of Operatwn-Same as castration of the stallion. (Seepage 24.) w~c Operative Technique-With field of operation, operators handsand mstrmnente sterile and animal in dorsal position, proceedto operate as follows: With scalpel in right hand make twocurved <• hPh,al incisions (D, Fig. 57, 5 inches long with th oZmal cicato (scar B as the center. These incisions should pen-etrate skn, and subcutaneous connective tissue only. liv careful faction (both diarp and blunt) the cord is gradually sened l ^tedby breaking down the numerous dense adherens surrounding it. The elliptical sect f skin which is removed on end of cord should be sufficiently large to include all external
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Fign>158~IIemovin- Schirrous Cord with B Chain Around *: r. v=,u^„SB:^Seu?; WSSt&SflUss- 86 Animal Castration diseased tissue, such as scars, granulations, etc. The tumor isnow grasped with the vulsellum forceps (Fig. 58.) These areheld by an assistant in such manner as to afford considerabledirect upward traction. With the cord tense from traction thecareful dissection is continued up the inguinal canal until a pointis reached well above the diseased or indurated portion of thecord. If the entire cord is diseased, then we should proceed upthe canal to a point in close proximity to the internal abdominalring. Usually after the cord is released from its scrotal adhe-sions the remainder of the dissection process can be completed bytearing with the fingers. All freely bleeding blood vessels—excepttlmse in cord itself—should be ligated as you proceed. Whenthe growth is freed from all surrounding attachments the ecraseurchain should be placed around it as high up as necessary

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