Mark D Stetter
Mark D Stetter
Rigid laparoscopic surgery can be performed on bony fish. It is expected that laparoscopy will become a standard technique in veterinary medicine and will provide the zoo and aquarium clinician with a greater variety of diagnostic and thera...
Dan H Johnson
Dan H Johnson
Rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas and many other small exotic mammals are not intubated routinely, because intubation requires specialized equipment and is difficult to perfect. Using a face mask for these species solely on the basis that t...
Stephen J Divers
Stephen J Divers
Despite the extensive use of endoscopy in avian and domestic animal practice, inclusion of exotic mammals (rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and so forth) in the endoscopist's case load is a much more recent phenomenon. Initially used as a means f...
Charles J Innis
Charles J Innis
The development of endosurgical techniques for chelonians has reduced the need for more invasive approaches such as plastron osteotomy. Surgical access and manipulation of much of the coelomic viscera of chelonians can be accomplished using...
Stephen J Divers
Stephen J Divers
The 2.7-mm telescope commonly used in avian practice has transitioned into an invaluable diagnostic tool for the reptile clinician. Previously plagued by vague medical histories, nonpathognomonic physical examinations, indistinct diagnostic...
Avian endosurgery [0.03%]
鸟类内窥镜手术
Stephen J Divers
Stephen J Divers
Endoscopy has proven to be an important diagnostic tool for avian veterinarians wishing to visualize and biopsy internal structures. To date, most of the described endoscopic procedures are single-entry techniques. The use of miniature lapa...
Avian diagnostic endoscopy [0.03%]
禽诊断内镜学
Stephen J Divers
Stephen J Divers
Unlike most animals, birds are blessed by an air sac system that essentially provides the endoscopist with a preinsufflated patient. Thanks to this unique anatomy and the pioneering work of Greg Harrison, Michael Taylor, and other avian vet...
Stephen J Divers
Stephen J Divers
The first descriptions of endoscopy date back to the times of Hippocrates (460-377 BC), who described the use of a rectal speculum in humans. Since that time, technologic advances have fueled the development of endoscopy equipment. The appl...
Drury R Reavill,Gerry M Dorrestein
Drury R Reavill
Aging processes leading to specific organ problems are not obvious in aging psittacines. In general, birds live long and age slowly despite their high metabolic rates and very high total lifetime energy expenditures. Most pathologic process...
Care of the geriatric rabbit [0.03%]
老年兔子的护理
Angela M Lennox
Angela M Lennox
The average life span reported in laboratory and lay literature for the domestic rabbit is 5 to 10 years. The author and other veterinarians are now regularly seeing rabbits living to 9 or 10 years, the oldest reported in the author's pract...