Year: 2017 | Month: August | Volume 7 | Issue 4
Occurrence Pattern of Different Types of Fracture in Bovine, Caprine and Canine
Abstract:
A total number of 12004 cases of different species were registered in Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Jabalpur, during study period. Out of these 12004 cases, 153 animals were presented with the fracture in any of the limb. The incidence of fracture was found to be 1.27%. Canine was the most common (58.82%) species to have a fracture. The incidence of fracture was highest (60.00%) in animals of age below 9 months. Further, the male animals (53.34%) outnumbered female (46.66%) for fracture cases. The tibia-fibula (36.66%) was the most common bone affected with fracture followed by metatarsal (23.33%) and radius–ulna (16.66%). Most of the fractures were oblique and transverse types and were located in midshaft of a bone. Hind limb was found more vulnerable for a fracture than fore limb. Fractures were more commonly recorded in left limbs (66.66%) of animal than the right limbs (33.34%). Automobile accident (50.00%) was found to be most common cause of a fracture.
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