Value of the Pedicle Omentum Transfer for the Healing of Large Skin Wound in Dogs

Pedicle omentum transfer has been used for the treatment of human tissue trauma. Eight large skin wound cases of 6-10 months, 5kg-10kg body weight, hybrid local dogs were chosen and medially divided into two groups. Every group had four cases including two males and two females. The size of all skin wound surface on abdominal wall were approximately 5cm×5cm. One group were reshaped as “H” saturation(H), and another group were sutured as “H” shape with the overlap of pedicle omentus on the wound surface(OH). Although the essential clinical physical signs had no difference in both groups, the vigor of wound skin in OH was obviously higher than that in H. That the cases in OH recovered better and earlier than that in H, suggested that the pedicle omentum transfer be valuable to the healing of large skin wound in dogs. INTRODUCTION Large skin wound was common ailment, and was formidable in canine clinic.1 Although many methods can be used to deal it, they have more or less defect in veterinary clinic. Mechanical debridement easily induces excessive granulation proliferation.2 Surgical debridement is an available for fresh trauma, but aggravates wound with disunion or quiescence.3 Biological debridement is archaic and had not applied in veterinary clinic now.4 Simple closure beseem to lively high tension of skin with aplenty subcutaneous fat, and the eligible treatment for large skin wound was skin orthopedics.5, 6 Skin flag plasty is extensively applied to human skin wound, but rarely used to veterinary clinic due to the complicate process and long time of therapy,7 and was practically easy to result in transplantation failure.5 Scarring is easily affected with dicey sanitation factors in long veterinary clinical attendance.8-11 Otherwise, mast cell was also applied for the treatment of surgical wound. 12 Value of the Pedicle Omentum Transfer for the Healing of Large Skin Wound in Dogs