Dean A. Hendrickson, DVM, MS, DACVS

The least expensive alternative for ovarian ligation is a hand-tied ligating loop.

We live in a time when polymer chemists work magic with different suture materials to give them specific properties that benefit surgeons. Today's sutures absorb within a consistent time frame every time veterinarians use them, possess specific handling characteristics, demonstrate good knot security, and cause minimal tissue inflammation.

Dr. Dean Hendrickson shows how laparoscopy offers a less invasive surgical approach for treating neophrospenic space ablation in horses

Dr. Dean Hendrickson discusses innovative methods that offer a less invasive approach to conducting laparscopic ovariectomy in horses.

Gone are the days when the practitioner turns to the suture material cabinet and only has a couple of choices for suture materials.

Dr. Dean A. Henrickson offers insight to managing leg injuries in horses which left untreated can be career ending.