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The prospective study conducted by Dr. Manuel Martin-Flores and his colleagues at Cornell University published in a recent issue of The Veterinary Journal (Martin-Flores et al., 2014) evaluates the implications of wide mouth opening onmaxillary artery blood flow in cats. Their results shed new light on what had already been suspected by the same authors and others investigating the cause of tem...

AIMS To assess the role of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in managing failures of conventional transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in cases with difficult laryngeal exposure. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 3 patients with difficult laryngeal exposure treated with TORS. All 3 cases failed to be managed by conventional TLM after repeated attempts by experienced surgeons. In 2 cases, the ini...

Case summary A 10-year-old neutered male domestic shorthair cat was evaluated because of signs of stertorous breathing and reverse sneezing of 8 months' duration. A CT scan performed 1 week before evaluation indicated nasopharyngeal stenosis or collapse. Increased respiratory effort, stertorous breathing, coughing, reverse sneezing, bilateral black ocular discharge and mucoid left nasal dischar...