2013 American College of Veterinary Surgeons Veterinary Symposium October 24-26, San Antonio, Texas Abstracts

This meeting, which focuses on veterinary medicine, contains approximately 200 abstracts, all written in English. Topics covered include enterolithiasis, equine gastric ulceration, canine cervical spine model, biomechanical evaluation of a novel subcuticular stapling system, urethral prolapse in dogs, treatment of bilateral cranial cruciate ligament rupture and effects of infrapatellar fat body resection in normal dogs. Also discussed are treatment for cranial cruciate ligament injury, canine hepatocellular carcinoma, surgical treatment of canine splenic lymphoma and comparison of the efficiency of chlorhexidine and alcohol-based surgical hand antisepsis in veterinary surgeons.