A small Holstein cow, age 4 years, was admitted to Stange Memorial Clinic, Feb. 3. 1948. She had been in labor since early that morning

Neumann, A.

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A Giant Bovine Fetus

A small Holstein cow, age 4 years, was admitted to Stange Memorial Clinic, Feb. 3. 1948. She had been in labor since early that morning.</p

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161 A Giant Bovine Fetus. A small Holstein cow, age 4 years, was admitted to Stange Memorial Clinic, Feb. 3. 194R. She had been in labor since early that morning. The cow was placed in the stocks and a vagmal examination revealed the fetus to be dead and exceptionally large. The head and left foreleg were presented nor-mally in the pelvic cavity, but the right foreleg was retained at the carpus. Efforts to repel the fetus so that the forelimb could be extended were useless because of the excessive size of the fetus. Since it was apparent that the calf could not be delivered by traction it was decided to perform an emergency laparohysterotomy. The right paralumbar fossa was clipped, shaved, defatted with ether, and a 7 per cent tincture of iodine was applied to the skin. The line of incision from the trans-verse processes of the lumbar vertebrae ventrally through the middle of the para-lumbar fossa was infiltrated with 4 per-cent procaine. A vertical incision was made through the skin, muscle, and peri-toneum in this infiltrated area. To expose the uterus the omentum was incised 2 in. ventral to the duodenum. The uterus was so large and immobile that the right horn could not be lifted up to the opera-tive incision, so an incision was made in the body of the uterus nearest to the operator. The fetus was removed by trac-tion from this incision. After the fetal membranes were remov-ed, sulfanilamide was placed in the uterus and the incision sutured with Cushing sutures, using No.3 chromic catgut. Ex-cessive fluid in the abdominal cavity was removed by siphoning. The peritoneum and transverse abdominal muscle were closed with a lock suture, using No. 3 chromic catgut. The internal and external oblique muscles were similarly sutured. A vertical mattress suture of umbilical tape was used to close the skin. 1,000 cc of 50 percent dextrose was administered intra-venously and 90 Gm. of sulfanilamide was given orally before the cow was removed to her stall. The fetus when taken from the uterus weighed 205 lb. This may not be a record Summer, 1948 Fig. 1. Fetus and Dam. weight, but it is the largest fetus ever delivered at Stange Memorial Clinic, and the largest ever encountered by any of the clinical dafI. A. Neumann, '49 Eversion of the Bladder in A Bovine. A two year old Here-ford cow was admitted to Stange Memor-ial Clinic Feb. 23, 1948, following the diagnosis by a local veterinarian of a vaginal tumor. The patient had calved 12 days pre-viously and it had been necessary to re-move the calf manually because of a diffi-cult breech presentation. The following day, the owner noticed a large hemorr-hagic mass protruding from the vulva. Hemorrhagic exudate was passed inter-mittently from the vagina for several days thereafter. February 24, the patient was restrain-ed in the stocks, the vulva and protruding mass cleansed with Therapogen solution, and a manual examination of these parts performed. The mass appeared peduncu-lated, and was found to be attached to the floor of the vagina at the approximate level of the posterior vaginal sphincter. Upon palpation the mass was of a very hard consistency and indurated; its sur-face was necrotic, bruised, and hemorr-hagic. Circumscribing the stalk-like at-155 

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