Case Report: A Single Port Laparoscopic Ovariohysterectomy in a Dog

Introduction
Minimally invasive surgery (MiS) has awakened great interest amongst veterinarians due to laparoscopic advantages presented to the patients: less surgical trauma, thera- peutic safety and faster recovery (1). regarding MiS approaches, single-port surgery constitutes an evolution of laparoscopic surgery, reducing even more the surgical trauma associated with every procedure (2). there are just a few bibliographic refer- ences about ovariectomy in dogs through a single-port laparoscopic approach (3, 4).

Objective
The main goal of this study was to report and assess the feasibility of single-port laparo- scopicfor ovariohysterectomy in a dog.

Methods
A 7-year-old, 13 kg, female Beagle dog was used to perform a single-port laparoscopic ovariohisterectomy with a commercially available device SiLStM port. first, a 3 cm skin incision was performed on the periumbilical region to introduce the SiLSTM port device. then, insufflation of Co2 was initiated to establish pneumoperitoneum at an intra-ab- dominal pressure of 10 mm Hg. next, specially-designed laparoscopic instruments were used to facilitate the procedure: the 5 mm LigasuretM sealing device and a roticulated 5 mm grasper were used for dissection and vascular sealing of the ovarian pedicle, sus- pensory ligament, broad ligament and body of the uterus. all the mentioned instru- ments were introduced through the same access port. the ovaries and uterus were extracted by directly removing the SiLSTM port. [...]