Discospondylitis inanadult horse

Abstracts Prognosis after surgeryformalignantcaninemammarytumours THEtwo-year survival rate of 175 bitches with malignant mam-mary tumours was unaffected whether the tumours were excised completely or only partially, or whether they had been ovariec-tomised before the mastectomy or were ovariectomised at thesame time as the mastectomy. The survival rates among thesegroups offrom 15 to 64 dogs ofvarious breeds ranged from84to93 percent. YAMAGAMI, T., KOBAYASHI, T., TAKAHASHI, K. & SUGIYAMA, M. (1996)JournalofSmallAnimalPractice37,462 Atresiaofthecolonin asix-week-oldkitten A SIX-WEEK-OLD kitten had lost weight, had a distendedabdomenandwas regurgitating its food. Clinical and radiologicalinvestigations suggested an intestinal obstruction, but a postmortemexamination revealed total atresia ofthe colon. Intestinalatresia should be included in the differential diagnosis for persis- tent obstipation in kittens as old as six weeks of age.O'SULLIVAN, E. (1966)Irish VeterinaryJournal49, 606