National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was carried out to determine the clinical epidemiology of bone fracture in dogs based on three years data of Veterinary Clinical Complex, College of Veterinary Science & A. H., Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, Gujarat. During study, signalment and clinical details of three years (April, 2017 – March, 2020) cases were analyzed that revealed a total number of 9556 dogs presented for various ailments, in which 2289 (23.95%) cases were of surgical affections. Out of these, 275 (12.01%) cases were of orthopaedic affections. During the study period, higher incidence of fracture was seen in femur followed by tibia-fibula, radius-ulna and humerus. Dogs in the age group of 1-6 months showed highest occurrence in comparison to other age group. Breed wise incidences of fracture was higher in non-descript breed followed by German shepherd, Labrador, Spitz and others while sex wise male was more affected then female. In this study, incidence of right hindlimb fracture was found higher followed by fracture of left hindlimb, right forelimb and left forelimb.
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