SOFT TISSUE SURGERY

Alongside general surgery, there is undoubtedly a type of specialised soft tissue surgery that not only requires experience and technical skills but also cannot absolutely do without a good understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying a specific pathology.

Surgical intervention represents the concluding therapeutic step of a diagnostic pathway that often requires, in addition to internal medicine evaluation, radiological assessment, ultrasound, and no less importantly, anaesthesiological evaluation.

Generally, this term refers to interventions involving internal organs. Sometimes this type of surgery must be performed on adult or even elderly animals, sometimes urgently because the animal's life is in danger.

Some examples include spontaneous and traumatic splenic ruptures, gastric volvulus with subsequent circumcostal gastropexy (anchoring the stomach to a rib) to prevent recurrent gastric torsion, pyometra (purulent infection of the uterus), a condition that requires immediate removal (unless complications affect other organs) of the ovaries and uterus to prevent septicemia or uterine rupture with subsequent septic peritonitis.