ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Surgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1616484
Percutaneous extracapsular repair as a cost-effective alternative for treating cranial cruciate ligament deficiency in dogs
Provisionally accepted
- 1The Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
- 2Cairo University, Giza, Giza, Egypt
- 3College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, United States
- 4D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- 5College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Acknowledgments: This study was funded by a grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The results do not necessarily reflect the views or the opinions of the ASPCA. The authors acknowledge the technical assistance of Zachary Morris, RVT, CCRP, and Cassandra Bernas, DVM. The authors also thank Christiana Benoit-Schall and David Clark, DVM, DABVP, for their assistance in recruiting cases. We thank Dr Lee, DVM, PhD, DACVA for his input into the anesthetic and analgesic management of dogs in this study.Finally, the authors are grateful to all owners who enrolled their pets in this study.
Keywords: access to veterinary care, Stifle, Cranial cruciate ligament (CCL), Gait analisys, extracapsular repair
Received: 22 Apr 2025; Accepted: 11 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Griffon, Mostafa, Griffon and Schaeffer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dominique J Griffon, The Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
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