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	Angell Offers Tracheal and Urethral Stenting by Shawn Kearns, DVM, DACVIM Tracheal collapse is a common, progressive, degenerative disease of the cartilage rings that primarily affects small and toy breed dogs. Angell now offers tracheal stenting -- a minimally invasive procedure used to re-establish patency using a self-expanding metallic stent (nitinol) which holds the tracheal open through outward radial force... Learn more about tracheal and urethral stenting at Angell.
	Nerve Blocks: An Easy and Cost Efficient Way to Augment Perioperative Pain Control by Lisa Moses VMD, DACVIM, CVMA If you’ve been to a big CE conference in the last few years, you’ve probably heard some buzz about local and regional anesthesia/analgesia. The hype is appropriate; there are few drugs or techniques that can augment pain control as safely, easily, or cheaply as local blocks. Even if your practice doesn’t have the case load to justify training and equipment for directed nerve block techniques, you can quickly and cheaply add local anesthesia techniques to your multimodal analgesia protocols. In most cases, local blocks cost less than a dollar in supplies and drugs, and only take seconds to perform... Read More »
	Seeking Interpretation of a Digital Image? Angell's Diagnostic Imaging service currently offers online digital imaging consultations. Click to learn more.
	Canine Mast Cell Tumors by Carrie Wood, DVM, DACVIM of Angell's Oncology service Mast cell tumors are the most common cutaneous neoplasms of the dog. The cornerstone of treatment has always been surgery followed by careful pathologic review to determine completeness of excision and when and if follow up treatments are warranted. Currently most pathologists use the Patnaik 3-tier grading system. A recent proposal from the American College of Veterinary Pathologists recommends a revised two-tier grading system… Click to learn more.

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Angell Neurology's Avril Arendse, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology): Dr. Arendse is a board-certified veterinary neurologist and neurosurgeon. She joined Angell in 2012 after serving as the Primary Neurologist for Veterinary Referral Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Dr. Arendse previously taught at the University of Tennessee Small Animal Teaching Hospital.

Dr. Arendse diagnoses and treats a variety of neurological disorders and provides emergency consultation, MRI interpretation and review, non-surgical treatment for conditions affecting the nervous system, and muscle and nerve biopsies. In addition, she performs a range of neurological surgeries including: cervical surgery (ventral slot, dorsal laminectomy and hemilaminectomy, ventral stabilization of the atlantoaxial joint); thoracic and lumbar surgery (dorsal laminectomy and hemilaminectomy, exploration and repair of fractures and luxations); and craniotomies (occipital dysplasia repair; craniotomy for biopsy, mass removal, and exploratory/repair; quadrageminal cyst removal; ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement). Read More >>