Surgery

Cruciate ligament injury:

• Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO)
• Tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA)

Fracture repair:

• Kyon ALPS – titanium locking plate internal fixation system
• AO ASIF Synthes – conventional compression plating internal fixation system

Patella luxation repair:

• Patella groove replacement (PGR)
• Tibial tuberosity transposition
• Soft tissue imbrication / release
• Trochleoplasty
• Corrective osteotomy

Other orthopedic procedures, including:

• Proximal abducting ulnar osteotomy (PAUL) technique for elbow dysplasia
• Amputation (for tumors, e.g. osteosarcoma; or non-salvageable trauma)
• Hemipelvectomy (for tumors involving the ilium, ischium, pubis, or anywhere in the pelvis)
• Limb-spare for distal radius osteosarcoma

Head and neck surgeries, including:

• Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome
• Mandibulectomy or maxillectomy and/or orbitectomy (tumors of the oral cavity, orbit, or skull)
• Total ear canal ablation (TECA-LBO; for end stage or intractable otitis externa or ear canal tumor)
• Ventral bulla osteotomy (VBO for nasopharyngeal polyps in cats or other middle ear disease such as aural cholesteatoma)
• Nasal planum resection and reconstruction (for nasal squamous cell carcinoma)
• Tracheal stent (old dog w/ collapsing trachea or intraluminal tracheal tumor)
• Tracheal rings (young dog w/ collapsing trachea)
• Sialadenectomy (for sialocele aka mucocele)
• Thyroidectomy (thyroid tumors)
• Parathyroidectomy (for primary hyperparathyroidism with hypercalcemia)
• Unilateral arytenoid lateralization (tie-back for laryngeal paralysis aka lar par)
• Long soft palate surgery

Chest (thorax) surgeries, including:

• Tracheal stent (old dog w/ collapsing trachea or intraluminal tracheal tumor
• Tracheal rings (young dog w/ collapsing trachea)
• Lung lobectomy (for pulmonary carcinoma or other lung tumor, lung abscess, etc)
• Cardio procedures: PDA (if too small for Amplatz), PRAA, MPA banding (for VSD palliation)
• Thymoma
• Diaphragmatic hernia, including pericardioperitoneal diaphragmatic hernia or traumatic
• Body wall resection (e.g. for rib tumor)
• Spontaneous pneumothorax, chylothorax, or pyothorax

Abdominal surgeries, including:

• Artificial urethral sphincter placement (for urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence, urinary incontinence)
• Adrenalectomy (adrenal tumors such as pheochromocytoma or carcinoma; laparoscopic if no caval invasion, otherwise open)
• Liver biopsy (e.g. for hepatopathy workup to include copper testing, cultures, histopathology biopsy; can be done laparoscopically)
• Liver lobectomy (for liver tumors, typically hepatocellular carcinoma or feline cystadenoma)
• Cholecystectomy (e.g. for gall bladder mucocele)
• Gastrointestinal biopsies (full-thickness for IBD vs. lymphoma; can be done lap-assisted)
• Mastectomy for mammary tumors
• Splenectomy
• Gastropexy
• Cystotomy (e.g. for stones)
• Sealed partial cystectomy (for non-trigonal bladder tumors such as transitional cell carcinoma TCC)
• Prescrotal urethrostomy (e.g. with penile amputation due to tumors or trauma, or alone for recurrent urethral stone obstruction)
• Extrahepatic portosystemic shunt attenuation (e.g. with ameroid constrictor or cellophane band)
• Nephrectomy or nephroureterectomy (for renal and/or ureteral tumors)
• Pancreatectomy, partial (for insulinoma)
• Gastrotomy (for foreign body removal)
• Gastrectomy (for gastric tumor excision)
• Enterotomy (for foreign body removal)
• Intestinal resection and anastomosis (e.g. foreign body or tumor)
• Subtotal colectomy (for megacolon)
• Herniorrhaphy (e.g. perineal, or inguinal, or umbilical hernias)
• Anal sacculectomy (with or without sublumbar lymph node excision; for apocrine gland of the anal sac adenocarcinoma
• Perineal urethrostomy (recurrent urethral obstruction blocked cats)
• Rectal mass resection (via rectal mucosal eversion or pull-through)
• Caudectomy (for screwtail)
• Subcutaneous ureteral bypass or ureteral reimplantation (e.g. cats with ureteral obstruction)
• Urethral ± ureteral stenting (salvage for transitional cell carcinoma TCC)
• Common bile duct stenting (for common bile duct obstruction)
• Urolithiasis (Urinary Stones)’
• Perineal hernia repair

Skin and reconstructive surgeries, including:

• Traumatic wound management and reconstruction
• Axial pattern flap wound management