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Animal Castration: Indications & Technique

The document discusses castration in animals. It indicates castration is done to render animals docile, for malignant or irreparable diseases of the gland, enlarged prostate, improved meat quality, and hernia correction. The surgery is typically done at the tip of the scrotum, prescrotal region in dogs, or median raphe in piglets. The surgical technique involves controlling the animal, making an incision, forcing out the testicles one at a time, freeing and clamping the cord, severing it between clamps, and closing the skin with sutures.

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Animal Castration: Indications & Technique

The document discusses castration in animals. It indicates castration is done to render animals docile, for malignant or irreparable diseases of the gland, enlarged prostate, improved meat quality, and hernia correction. The surgery is typically done at the tip of the scrotum, prescrotal region in dogs, or median raphe in piglets. The surgical technique involves controlling the animal, making an incision, forcing out the testicles one at a time, freeing and clamping the cord, severing it between clamps, and closing the skin with sutures.

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Castration in animals

Indication

a. To render the animal docile.


b. Malignant disease or any irreparable injury of the gland.
c. Enlarged prostate gland.
d. To improve the quality of meat.
e. Correction of scrotal hernia.

Site of operation:

a. At the tip of the scrotum (pendulus scrotum)


b. Prescrotal region (dog)
c. At the median raphe in piglets.

Surgical anatomy:

a. The wall of the scrotum is composed of the following layers:


Skin , dartos, fascia, tunica vaginalis, tunica perietalis, external cremaster muscle is
attached to lateral surface.
b. The blood supply is from external pubic artery and the vein goes to external pubic vein.
c. The external spermatic artery supplies to the cremaster muscle.
d. Nerves are derived from ventral branches of 2nd and 3rd lumbar spinal nerves.
e. The testis lies on the scrotum. The tunica albuginea is covered by tunica vaginalis
visceral.
f. The spermatic cord contains the following structures:
i. Internal spermatic artery
ii. Internal spermatic veins
iii. Lymphatic of the testis and epidermis.
iv. Internal spermatic plexus of autonomic and visceral sensory nerves.
v. The ductus deferens
vi. Internal cremaster muscle.
vii. The tunica vaginalis visceralis. It forms the covering of the cord and is continuous
with the parietal layer of tunica vaginalis.

Surgical technique:

a. The animal is controlled in the dorsal position with the hind leg extended after proper
tranquilization/sedation and linear infiltration of site of operation by local Anaesthesia
solution i.e procaine hydrochloride 2% or after using general anaesthesia like parenteral
or inhalation agent.
b. An incision about 3-4 cm length is made on the midline posterior to the bulbus glandis of
the penis or anterior to scrotum (pre scrotal region).
c. The left and the right testicles one at a time are forced out through the incision by
pressure over the scrotum.
d. The tunica is freed from the surrounding tissues. The cord is clamped with two artery
forceps and one ligature using catgut size 0 or 00 is applied above the upper forceps and
the second ligature below the lower forceps.
e. The cord is severed between two forceps. The lower forceps is then slowly released. The
haemorrhage if any, from the cord should be immediately checked.
f. Following complete arrest of haemorrhage, deep and superficial subcutaneous layer and
sub-dermal skin are closed with 0 or 1 chromic catgut in a simple interrupted fashion.
Skin is then sutured with 3 or 4 interrupted sutures of no- absorbable sutured material.

Conclusion:

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