Anatomia e imagenologia do braço e da coxa da Paca (Cuniculus paca, Linaeus 1776) para determinação do acesso cirúrgico à diáfise do úmero e do fêmur

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Leal, Leonardo Martins [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Roedor; Ortopedia veterinaria; Radiografia veterinaria; Tomografia; Ressonância magnética; Animais silvestres; Forest animals
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136796; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/22-03-2016/000860262.pdf

The objective was to describe the morphology of the thigh and arm of paca (Cuniculus paca, Linanaeus 1766), by anatomical and imaging methodology for determining the surgical diaphyseal approach of the bones of those regions. We used 15 adult Cuniculus paca, males and females, weighing between five and 10kg of the Wild Animal sector FCAV, Unesp, Jaboticabal-SP. Five animals were fixed in formaldehyde solution 10% and stored in saline solution NaCl 30% for anatomic dissection of the arm and the thigh regions, five pacas were injected with colored latex to identify the arterial supply of the limbs and the other five animals were frozen for rays-X, CT and MRI analysis to perform the comparison with the anatomical parts. The results were photodocumented and it was determined the best surgical approach to the femur and humerus of paca. The anatomy of the thoracic and pelvic limbs of paca is similar to domestic quadrupeds, especially the dog and rodents used in experimentation as mouse and guinea pig, which enhances the possible use of paca as experimental animal. It might also conclude that the imaging study by means of radiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging is reliable method for anatomical description of the wild animal limbs which have little known morphology. Finally, it was possible to determine the best surgical approach to the humerus and femur of paca, being medially to the humerus and craniolaterally to the femur