Surgical management of ectrodactyly in a Turkish Kangal dog

Abstract

Ectrodactyly is an exceptional congenital disorder which is seen at the distal part of the limbs and characterized with longitudinal bony and soft tissue clefts. These clefts can include digits, metacarpal bones, carpal joint or radius-ulna. A male, 18 week-old, Turkish Kangal dog was presented with the right forelimb lameness and inspectional abnormality with a long and wide cleft starting from the distal manus to the carpo-metacarpal joint. The long cleft between metacarpal bones was fixed with two lag screws after filling the gap with corticocancellous bone block and fusion podoplasty. Short term clinical results were favourable following the surgery, but long term clinical outcome was less favourable because the dog revealed mild lameness due to the erosion of skin surrounding the digital pads. Finally, this problem was solved by using pad protectors when walking on rough grounds

Keywords

• Congenital anomaly
• dog
• ectrodactyly
• fusion podoplasty

Kangal ırkı bir köpekte ektrodaktili’nin cerrahi sağaltımı

Abstract

Ektrodaktili, bacağın distal kısmındaki yumuşak ve kemik dokuda uzunlamasına yarık ile karakterize, ender görülen konjenital bir hastalıktır. Bu yarık; parmakları, metakarpal kemikleri, karpal eklemi ve radius ulna’yı da kapsayabilir. Dört buçuk aylık, Kangal ırkı, erkek bir köpek sağ ön ayağında topallık ve dış bakıda belirlenebilen distalden başlayan ve karpometakarpal ekleme kadar uzanan, uzun ve geniş bir yarık şikayeti ile getirildi. Metakarpal kemikler arasındaki geniş yarık, kortikokansellöz blok kemik grefti ve füzyon podoplastiden sonra iki lag vidası ile stabilize edildi. Operasyonu takiben kısa dönem sonuçları olumlu iken, uzun dönem sonuçlarına bakıldığında, parmakların taban yastıklarının etrafındaki derinin erozyonundan dolayı hafif topallık gözlendi. Sonuç olarak bu problem de sert zeminde yapılan yürüyüşlerde koruyucu ped uygulaması ile çözüldü

Keywords

• Ektrodaktili
• füzyon podoplasti
• konjenital anomali
• köpek

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