STRANGULATION OF THE INTESTINE BY THE OVARIAN LIGAMENT IN SOLIPEDS.
Pediculated ovary in mare. Strangulation. Diagnosis by rectal exploration. Castration.
In most healthy animals the ovary is light and its situation in the anterior border of the broad ligament so firm that it is impossible for it to enwrap and constrict the intestines. In the mare, however, the healthy ovary may be almost as large as the closed fist, and when further enlarged by cystic or other degeneration, it drags upon and lengthens the ligament until that may form a long pedicle which can easily be wound round the floating colon or small intestine.
Diagnosis of this trouble can often be satisfactorily made by rectal exploration, and treatment will consist in the removal of the offending body by castration through an incision made in the anterior part of the roof of the vagina close behind the os uteri.