This case report describes retroperitoneal and subserosal emphysema as the primary indication of a caecal perforation associated with an episode of colic. Feed contamination was not noted on repeated peritoneal fluid samples or within the peritoneal cavity at the time of surgery; however,...

Twenty-three horses died of caecal perforation (CP). None was known to have caecal disease before the development of clinical signs of perforation. The horses characteristically had been sick or were affected with disease unrelated to the caecum, and 16 horses had been given a nonsteroidal...

Between January 1986 and July 1998, 1040 horses over 2 years of age, from Normandy, were examined post mortem. The digestive, cardiovascular, locomotor and respiratory systems were affected in 53.2, 13.1, 12.9 and 6%, respectively. The main digestive system lesions were gastric dilation with or...

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