Outcomes associated with treatments for medial, lateral, and multidirectional shoulder instability in dogs.

Objectives: To describe demographic factors, treatments, and outcomes associated with shoulder instability in dogs.

Study Design: Multi-center, retrospective cohort study.

Animals: Dog (n = 130) with shoulder instability.

Relationship of physical examination test of shoulder instability to arthroscopic findings in dogs.

Objective: To determine the diagnostic validity of commonly used physical examination maneuvers for shoulder instability.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: Dogs (n=24) referred for shoulder arthroscopy.

Improved survival associated with postoperative wound infection in dogs treated with limb-salvage surgery for osteosarcoma.

Background: Limb-salvage surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy are performed as a treatment of appendicular osteosarcoma in dogs. Approximately 50% of dogs that undergo limb-salvage surgery develop postoperative surgical wound infections. Postoperative surgical infections may affect survival in cancer patients.

Duration, complications, stress, and pain of open ovariohysterectomy versus a simple method of laparoscopic-assisted ovariohysterectomy in dogs.

Objective: To describe a simple method of laparoscopic-assisted ovariohysterectomy (LAOHE) and compare duration of surgery, complications, measures of surgical stress, and postoperative pain with open ovariohysterectomy (OHE) in dogs.

Design: Randomized, prospective clinical trial.

Animals: 20 healthy sexually intact female dogs weighing >10 kg (22 lb).