Medial pantarsal arthrodesis with Compact UniLock 2.0 locking plate system in a cat

Background: Pantarsal arthrodesis is a salvage procedure carried out for the treatment of tarsal joint disease, including severe osteoarthritis with intractable pain in tarsocrural joint, fractures, shearing injuries, instability, and failure common calcaneal tendon. Although medial plating preferable, high incidence post-surgery complications possible. Using thin, pre-contouring or easy contouring, locking plates might reduce such complications. However, to date, there are no dedicated forpantarsal placement.Case Description: The case an 18-month-old female stray European cat has been referred because tibiotarsal injury improperly treated intramedullary pin. patient was submitted pantarsal arthrodesis, performed Compact UniLock 2.0™ plate systema (DePuy Synthes, Oberdorf, Switzerland). authors hypothesized that this particularly innovative osteosynthesis system could present advantages compared systems already use therefore risk complications.Conclusion: This titanium system, its versatile contour function thinness, allowed good functional recovery limb showed numerous over traditional systems.