New
Surgical Technique for Treatment of Obstructive Penile
Urethrolithiasis without Interference with Breeding Capability:
Clinical Study on 25 Calves
Aiman Mahmoud Seddek*and
Hossam Ahmad Bakr1
Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and
Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt;
1Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt
*Corresponding author:
mmm_bbb15@yahoo.com
Abstract
A clinical study performed on 25 calves suffered
from urine retention with intact bladder as a result of lodgment of urinary
stone at the penile sigmoid flexure. Paracentesis of the bladder were applied to
the cases with over distended bladder. All animals were subjected to dorsal
penile urethrotomy for removal of the stone and temporary retrograde
catheterization of the bladder using suitable diameter Rayle’s tube. The tube
was removed 8-10 days post-surgery, and the calves were observed for six months
post-surgery. Twenty one calves cured without surgical complications and kept
their penile erection and breeding capability.Four calves showed post-surgical complications, two of them suffered from
abscess formation at the sigmoid flexure, the third calf had adhesion at sigmoid
flexure and the fourth had ruptured urethra. The technique is a rapid simple
technique of many advantages over urethrostomy and it has the same cost. The
technique can be considered an alternative technique for treatment of urine
retention with intact bladder without affecting breeding capability.