Regional Veterinary Surgery

TREATMENT

• Medical treatment like application of counterirritant or other topics to the skin over the pouch has no beneficial result. Puncturing the sac gives only temporary relief, as it rapidly refills.
• Surgical correction is the good management of the guttural pouch tympany.
• For unilateral tympany, surgical ablation of the median septum separating the two guttural pouches is performed. Bilateral involvement may necessitate resection of the excessive plica salpingopharyngeal flap.