Rigid colonoscopy and colonic diseases in dogs

Authors

  • Eric Schmidt Rondon
  • Eulógio Carlos Queiroz de Carvalho
  • Orlei Justen dos Santos
  • Isabel Gomes Andrade
  • José Renato Junqueira Borges

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22256/pubvet.v16n1.1269

Keywords:

endoscopy, dog, colitis, colon, intestine

Abstract

The colonoscopy is an indispensable diagnostic tool in the evaluation of chronic diarrhea when other methods fail to detect its etiology. Considering the anatomic conformation of the carnivore colon, this examination may be performed by means of two techniques. The use of a rigid colonoscope (human retosigmoidoscope) has generated the term rigid colonoscopy in contrast to the use of a flexible endoscope. Most of the colonic diseases have a diffuse character, and may be detected using a rigid instrument like this that is capable to reach the entire descending colon until its junction with the transverse. When comparing the methods, rigid colonoscopy has lower cost and a faster and easier application. This paper describes the colonoscopy and histopathological findings in fifteen dogs with diarrhea that underwent rigid colonoscopy

Published

2015-08-15

Issue

Section

Medicina veterinária

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