STANDING LAPAROSCOPIC-GUIDED UTERINE BIOPSY IN A SOUTHERN WHITE RHINOCEROS (CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM)

Rolfe M. Radcliffe; Dean A. Hendrickson; G. Lynn Richardson; Jeffery R. Zuba; Robin W. Radcliffe

doi:10.1638/1042-7260(2000)031[0201:SLGUBI]2.0.CO;2

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1 June 2000 STANDING LAPAROSCOPIC-GUIDED UTERINE BIOPSY IN A SOUTHERN WHITE RHINOCEROS (CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM)

Rolfe M. Radcliffe, Dean A. Hendrickson, G. Lynn Richardson, Jeffery R. Zuba, Robin W. Radcliffe

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J. of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 31(2):201-207 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1638/1042-7260(2000)031[0201:SLGUBI]2.0.CO;2

Abstract

Transrectal ultrasonography of a 35-yr-old captive female southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) with a history of chronic mucohemorrhagic vulvar discharge revealed right transmural uterine horn enlargement. Abdominal laparoscopic surgery, although extremely difficult because of inadequate instrumentation, permitted uterine visualization and biopsy. Standing anesthesia, incorporating butorphanol and azaperone together with local anesthetic infiltration, facilitated the laparoscopy. A leiomyoma was suspected on the basis of history, physical examination, ultrasonographic appearance, and histopathology. Prior rhinoceros laparoscopies have failed, primarily from limitations imposed by recumbency.

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Rolfe M. Radcliffe, Dean A. Hendrickson, G. Lynn Richardson, Jeffery R. Zuba, and Robin W. Radcliffe "STANDING LAPAROSCOPIC-GUIDED UTERINE BIOPSY IN A SOUTHERN WHITE RHINOCEROS (CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 31(2), 201-207, (1 June 2000). https://doi.org/10.1638/1042-7260(2000)031[0201:SLGUBI]2.0.CO;2

Received: 23 June 1999; Published: 1 June 2000

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