Advances in the Canine Cranial Cruciate Ligament, 2nd edition

30 Treatment of Excessive Tibial Plateau Angle Michael P. Kowaleski Introduction The proximal tibial articular surface is angu- ...

254 Surgical Treatment (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) Figure 30.1 Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) and closing cranial wedg ...

Treatment of Excessive Tibial Plateau Angle 255 (A) (B) (C) Figure 30.2 Safe and required rotation. The osteotomy is positioned ...

256 Surgical Treatment rotation (Figure 30.2B), and this can be deter- mined by identifying the safe rotation distance in the ap ...

Treatment of Excessive Tibial Plateau Angle 257 The case example illustrates a patient with a TPAof 41◦and a safe rotation of 11 ...

258 Surgical Treatment without any loss of bone apposition at the TPLO (arrows in Figure 30.3) (Wehet al. 2011). In cases with p ...

Treatment of Excessive Tibial Plateau Angle 259 2.7-mm straight bone plate can be added to the standard 3.5-mm TPLO plate, or a ...

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31 Surgical Management of Cruciate Ligament Rupture Combined with Patella Luxation Anke Langenbachand Denis J. Marcellin-Little ...

262 Surgical Treatment period of the TPLO procedure (Slocum & Slocum 1993). In two large studies, the reported incidence of ...

Surgical Management of Cruciate Ligament Rupture Combined with Patella Luxation 263 the tibial plateau and distal articular surf ...

264 Surgical Treatment Figure 31.2 Craniocaudal radiograph of a Newfoundland with combined cruciate ligament rupture and medial ...

Surgical Management of Cruciate Ligament Rupture Combined with Patella Luxation 265 (A) (B) (C) Figure 31.3 In dogs with normal ...

266 Surgical Treatment Femoral torsion and angulation are routinely abnormal in dogs with CR and PL. Bow-legged dogs have varus ...

Surgical Management of Cruciate Ligament Rupture Combined with Patella Luxation 267 (A) (B) Figure 31.6 Realignment of the tibia ...

268 Surgical Treatment TTA can also be used to manage CR com- bined with PL (Newmanet al. 2014). The man- agement of medial PL a ...

Surgical Management of Cruciate Ligament Rupture Combined with Patella Luxation 269 Lafaver S, Miller NA, Stubbs WP,et al. Tibia ...

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32 Biomechanics of the Cranial Cruciate Ligament-Deficient Stifle Treated by Tibial Osteotomies Antonio Pozzi,Stanley E. Kim, an ...

272 Surgical Treatment predicting clinical function is likely a reflection of the discrepancy between measures ofjoint laxity ve ...