Abstract

The study was conducted on eight male camels with soft palate injuries. Animals were presented with history of dysphagia. Soft palate injury occurred by their own tooth (3 cases), by other camel (4 cases) and by branch of tree (1 case). Injured soft palate had haematoma in 4 camels, abscess in 3 camels and gangrene formation in 1 camel. In three camels injured soft palate was retained inside and in 5 camels it was protruded out side. Injured soft palate excision was done from its caudal most attachment with long mayo scissors under Xylazine sedation. Post-operatively, the camels was given antibiotic and analgesic. All animals recovered uneventfully.

Keywords: Camel; excision; soft palate; sutureless

Introduction

The soft palate diverticulum represents a specific anatomical feature in camel. It was well developed in males but reached its extreme development in adults. The camel has the longest soft palate with an average length of 16 cm in the adult. It stretches from the end of the hard palate caudally over the epiglottis to the level of arytenoid cartilage. Palatine diverticulum is a peculiar expandable diverticulum that occurs on ventral median aspect of soft palate. It is better developed in the male as compared to female animal. The palatine diverticulum is popularly known as Dulla (Siddiqui and Telfah, 2010). It had a pleated aspect, consisting of loose connective tissue with few mucous glands and lymphoid nodules constituting the velar tonsil. The whole surface is...