Application of tendon plating to manage failed calcaneal tendon repairs in a dog
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To report the application of a plate to treat a complicated calcaneal tendon rupture and the resulting outcome. STUDY DESIGN: Clinical case report. ANIMALS: A 3-year-old Labrador retriever. METHODS: A 3-year-old Labrador retriever was treated for a partially ruptured calcaneal tendon. Two primary tendon repairs with sutures and external fixation had failed. A veterinary cuttable plate was placed to internally span the tendon over the primary repair. The external fixation that had been previously placed was maintained, and the dog was placed in a non-weight-bearing sling for 3 weeks after surgery. Adjunct therapy included an injection of platelet-rich plasma in the tendon and laser therapy. The external fixator was removed 4 weeks postoperatively, and the plate was removed 8 weeks postoperatively. RESULTS: A mature fibrous union bridged the site of anastomosis 8 weeks after surgery. The owners reported normal activity 6 months after surgery and symmetric hock angles and musculature 2 years after surgery. CONCLUSION: Adjunct plating of previously failed calcaneal tendon repairs in a dog resulted in an excellent long-term outcome. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Plating tendons can be considered as an additional method that may improve tendon apposition and decrease gap formation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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