Timpany and empyema of guttural pouch associated with strangles

Authors

  • Morgana Cardoso B. Borges
  • Antonio A.C. Tinoco
  • Ulisses de C. Graça Filho
  • Eider E.S. Leandro
  • André Ricardo G de O. Lopes
  • Daniel P. Coutinho
  • Marco Aurélio Ferreira Lopes
  • Robson B. Cerqueira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/cmbio.v4i2.4184

Keywords:

guttural pouch, tympany, empyema.

Abstract

Strangles is a contagious disease that affect the equine upper respiratory tract, frequent and important, that causes pyrexia, nasal discharge and secretion of pus from lymph nodes. Often occur in young equines and is caused by Streptococcus equi â-hemolytic. Some times the strangles can promote results how sinusitis, guttural pouch empyema and distant abscess formation, main in the mesentery. The objective of this paper is study of timpany and empyema of guttural pouch associated with strangles, clinic and cirurgic, happened in a young horse.

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Published

2005-01-01

How to Cite

Borges, M. C. B., Tinoco, A. A., Graça Filho, U. de C., Leandro, E. E., Lopes, A. R. G. de O., Coutinho, D. P., Lopes, M. A. F., & Cerqueira, R. B. (2005). Timpany and empyema of guttural pouch associated with strangles. Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences, 4(2), 125–130. https://doi.org/10.9771/cmbio.v4i2.4184

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