Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
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Surgery on the gut has two main groups:
1) where the intestines are manipulated but not cut e.g. moving a small intestinal obstruction down to the caecum, removing an abscess next to the intestine. This usually carries a good prognosis if the rabbit is not debilitated at the time of surgery.
2) cutting into the intestine e.g. to remove a lodged foreign body or tumour of the intestinal wall. This carries a worse prognosis with high risk of infection, wound breakdown and secondary adhesions.
Do you know what/where the mass is exactly as this will dramatically affect possible surgery and outcome?
Last two obstructive surgeries I have done went home within 48hrs looking fantastic so it's not always a bad outcome.