When we planned this work we intended it to be a practical book, useful for both students and surgeons who need to delve more deeply into the feline speciality. It was never our aim to produce an extensive and in-depth treatise on surgery; we do not consider ourselves qualified, nor would our daily occupations have allowed us to do so. Rather, we preferred to cover interventions for exclusively feline conditions or, at least, the most common ones encountered in our hospitals and clinics.
We have tried to give the book a very practical approach. Everything you will read are procedures that we perform in our routine work. The photos and videos are also original (or borrowed from colleagues who are specialists in their field). We preferred a more limited work, but one that could give you an idea of the problems you may encounter in each procedure and how to solve them if you want to dedicate yourself to feline surgery.

I -  OVERVIEW

1. The feline surgical patient

2. Feline sedation, anesthesia and analgesia

3. Postoperative care in feline medicine

4. Suture types and techniques

5. Surgical materials

6. Diagnostic imaging

7. Biopsy techniques and most common uses in feline medicine

8. Wound management

 

II - SKIN SURGERY

9. Most common flaps and plasties in feline surgery

10. Most common skin tumors in the cat

11. Mammary surgery

12. Feline injection-site sarcoma

 

III - HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

13. Reconstructive surgery of the hard and soft palate

14. Feline dental extractions

15. Nasal planum and nasal cavity surgery

16. Nasopharyngeal polyps and stenosis

17. Eyelid and orbital surgery

18. Ear canal and middle ear surgery

19. Thyroid and parathyroid surgery

 

IV - ABDOMINAL SURGERY

20. Feline abdominal cavity hernias

21. Gastric foreign bodies and tumors

22. Intestinal foreign bodies and tumors

23. Perianal surgery

24. Splenectomy

25. Kidney and ureter surgery

26. Bladder surgery

27. Urethrostomy

28. Orchiectomy and cryptorchidism

29. Ovariohysterectomy, pyometra and caesarean section

 

V - TRAUMATOLOGY IN CATS

30. Assessment and initial management of polytraumatized cats

31. Common fractures of the forelimb in polytraumatized cats

32. Fractures of the pelvis and coxofemoral joint

33. Common fractures of the hind limb in polytraumatized cats