Abstract

GALLEGO-RODRIGUEZ, Renso Sneider; LEYSNER-TAVERA, Jesika  and  AGUIRRE, Julio Cesar. Multiple mandibular fracture in a possum (Didelphis marsupialis), forensic radiological study. rev. colombiana cienc. anim. Recia [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.1, pp.146-153. ISSN 2027-4297.  https://doi.org/10.24188/recia.v11.n1.2019.682.

The death by vehicular collision is one of the main causes of death in wildlife, drastically affecting the population number of several species. A Zarigueya (didelphis marsupialis) is received in the veterinary clinic of the Remington University in Medellín - Antioquia, with a recent history of multiple trauma with obvious signs of pain, multiple laceration and abrasive lesions in the cranial, thoracic and coxal regions. The patient starts medical pharmacological management, fluid therapy and is hospitalized; past few hours the patient died due to the severity of the lesions. It is decided to perform an orthogonal radiological study (lateral and ventro - lateral views of the skull, thorax and abdomen, laterals of the appendicular skeleton) in which a fracture is observed in the green stem of the horizontal left mandibular branch, in the left mandibular angle a complete oblique fracture is observed and in the left maxillary bone there is a slightly displaced longitudinal fracture.

Keywords : Run over; wildlife; veterinary radiology; opossum; road ecology; forensic.

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