Authors : Sadullah Bahar and Mustafa Orhun Dayan
Abstract: The guttural pouches have an elusive anatomy due to their location, adjacency and variable shape. Computed Tomography (CT) is utilized in visualizing the details of complex body parts and their in creating 3-Dimensional (3D) Models. In the present study was aimed to demonstrate sectional reference anatomical details of the pouches and to obtain their certain morphometric features. Heads of 5 purebred female Arabian foals were scanned by helical CT. CT was quite successful in demonstrating the borders of the guttural pouches and the surrounding bone and muscular tissues. The guttural pouches volume was 82.1±7.69 mL whereas volume ratios of the lateral and medial compartments were 16 and 84%. Pouches were observed as the largest air cavity of the head’s total air space. 3D Models may provide substantial advantages in determining topographic, morphologic, morphometric features of the guttural pouches and in pre-surgical planning for this region.
Sadullah Bahar and Mustafa Orhun Dayan, 2014. Two and Three-Dimensional Computed Tomographic Anatomy of the Guttural Pouch in Arabian Foals. Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 13: 694-701.