Guttural pouch

Question 1

They represented less than 0.5% of all cases presented to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in California over a two-year period

Answer 1

Guttural Pouch Drainage

Question 2

Auditory tube diverticulum

Answer 2

guttural pouch

Question 3

dorsal border of GP

Answer 3

base of skull and atlas

Question 4

ventral border of GP

Answer 4

nasopharynx and esophagus

Question 5

medial border of GP

Answer 5

Longus capitus, rectua capitus, and septum

Question 6

lateral border of GP

Answer 6

BVs and muscles

Question 7

serve an important function by regulating pressure on the eardrums

Answer 7

auditory tubes

Question 8

The exercising horse generates a tremendous amount of heat because of the massive amount of muscular work required for high-speed motion. T/F

Answer 8

true

Question 9

Because the horse spent much of its evolutionary development on flat grassland, pressure regulation appears to be a factor in explaining the extreme size of the equine guttural pouch. T/F

Answer 9

f. does not appear to

Question 10

The guttural pouch is a two-chambered space separated by the __, and it can hold roughly 20 ounces (591.4 ml) of fluid or air.

Answer 10

stylohyoid bone

Question 11

___ chamber is associated with more nerves and contains the internal carotid artery and the maxillary-facial vein.

Answer 11

lateral or outermost chamber

Question 12

part of lateral pouch Parallel to the stylohyoid

Answer 12

facial nerve

Question 13

Accumulation of air in the guttural pouches

Answer 13

tympany

Question 14

tympany is more common in older horses

Answer 14

f. young horses

Question 15

Infection seen in pouches
Accumulation of pus

Answer 15

empyema

Question 16

Fungal hyphae / membranes growing in the GP

Answer 16

mycosis

Question 17

GP tympany etiology is the inflammation or abnormal anatomy of the __

Answer 17

plica salpyngopharyngea

Question 18

definitive DX of GP tympany

Answer 18

xray

Question 19

VIBORG’S triangle (borders)

Answer 19

Caudal border of the mandible
the linguofacial vein
Tendon of the sternocephalicus

Question 20

prognosis of GPD in foals

Answer 20

good

Question 21

what dz is H202 contraindicated to use

Answer 21

empyema

Question 22

A 10-cm-long incision is made 2 cm cranial to and parallel with the wing of the atlas

Answer 22

hyovertebrotomy

Question 23

hyovertebrotomy Can be closed or left partly open for infusion of irrigating solutions

Answer 23

true

Question 24

firm “stones” of pus that form here and complicate treatment of infection -Hardened solidified pus

Answer 24

chondroids

Question 25

Skin incised on the ventral midline over the larynx

Answer 25

whitehouse approach

Question 26

Guttural pouch opened medial to the stylohyoid bone

Answer 26

whitehouse approach

Question 27

Skin incision is made along the ventral edge of the linguofacial vein and extends rostrally for about 12 cm from the jugular vein

Answer 27

modified whitehouse

Question 28

etiology of guttural pouch mycosis

Answer 28

aspergillus spp.

Question 29

Spontaneous epistaxis (fungal erosion) - most common

Answer 29

Guttural Pouch Mycosis

Question 30

2nd most common CS of guttural pouch mycosis

Answer 30

dysphagia

Question 31

guttural pouch mycosis surgical tx involves Diphtheritic membrane detached by gentle swabbing and lavage through a what approach

Answer 31

modified Whitehouse approach

Question 32

effective drug but toxic in GP mycosis

Answer 32

amphoteticin