Advances in standing laparoscopic surgery

Over the past 25 years laparoscopic surgical techniques in horses have been improved and some abdominal surgeries are now entirely replaced by the laparoscopic approach. Ovariectomy, closure of the nephro-splenic space and closure of the vaginal/internal inguinal ring are good examples. Some procedures like abdominal cryptorchidectomy are still performed the ‘old way’ under general anaesthesia or by a standing laparoscopic approach depending on the surgeon’s experience and the owner’s request. There is a list of standing laparoscopic surgeries that are not so common and are only performed in some specialist centres ...