VSR 421: Regional Veterinary Surgery (2+1)

INDICATIONS OF URETHROTOMY

• Urethral calculi, prostate diseases.
• Urethrotomy is a surgical procedure used to remove urethral calculi most frequently in male and occasionally in female when hydropropulsion fails to flush the calculi into the bladder.
• The anaesthesia and surgical approaches are depending on species and site of obstruction.

Radiograph showing presence of urethral caliculi	Prostatic abscess

Indications

• Urethral obstruction.
• Occasionally, biopsy of obstructive lesions (i.e. strictures, scar tissue and neoplasms).
• Allow breeding ability to be maintained.