[Primary closure of the scrotal wound in the castration of stallions].

The research discusses a method of castration in stallions where the aim was to achieve primary wound closure. The procedure was successful in 90% of the stallions with normally descended testicles, and in 97.4% of the stallions with a single testicle undescended. The study concludes that for the method to be successful, the surgery must be performed under completely sterile conditions.

Objective and Method

• The research focused on a method of castration in stallions with the principal aim to achieve primary closure of the wound post castration.
• This method was applied to a sample of 110 stallions with normally descended testicles, and to 38 stallions dealing with the condition of unilateral cryptorchidism (a condition where one or both of the testes fail to descend).

Results

• In the group of stallions with normally descended testicles, the method was successful in achieving primary wound healing in 90% of the cases.
• For the stallions with unilateral cryptorchidism where the normally descended testicle was surgically removed using the described method, the success rate of primary wound healing was found to be higher, around 97.4%.

Conclusion

• Successful outcomes in the form of primary wound healing are contingent upon maintaining entirely sterile surgical conditions, this explicitly draws an underline on the crucial importance of asepsis.
• The research suggests that this approach to castration can be widely applied with high success rates given the surgical conditions are strictly sterile.