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Foreign BODY
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Claunch, DVM, DACVS-
LA, graduated from Texas A&M
University College of Veterinary
Medicine in 2010. He completed
an internship at Rood & Riddle
Equine Hospital in Lexington,
Kentucky, in 2011 followed
by a surgical residency at
the University of Georgia
2011–2014. He joined Weems
& Stephens Equine Hospital in
Aubrey, Texas, in 2014 and became
a Diplomate of the American College of
Veterinary Surgeons in 2015. Clinical interests
include all aspects of equine surgery including orthopedic,
upper airway and laparoscopic surgery as well as lameness.
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by, Kevin Claunch, DVM, DACVS
A three-year-old Quarter Horse colt that was referred
to the hospital for signs of colic and unresponsive to
medical care on the farm. The horse was evaluated and
had marked distension of the cecum palpable per rectum.
The horse was taken to surgery where a firm intraluminal
mass was palpated in the right ventral colon. A pelvic
flexure enterotomy was performed. An unusual shaped
object was lodged in the ceco-colic orifice with half of
the object in the cecum and half in the RVC. The object
was able to be manipulated into the colon and towards
the pelvic flexure. The object was removed and was a
frayed cotton lead rope that had become covered with
multiple small enteroliths at every place that the lead
rope had frayed. The horse had an uneventful recovery.
The
