A morphometric study was carried out in descending colon of 15 healthy horses, nine females and six males, submitted to appositional suture techniques with polyglactin 910 or with cyanoacrilate. The animals were randomly distributed in five groups of three animals each and sacrificed on postoperative days 3, 7, 14, 35 or 70 in order to collect the operated intestinal segments. The morphometric evaluation was done with an optic microscope adapted to an image analysis system, where was counted the inflammatory infiltrated, through neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages, lymphocytes and plasmacytes counting. No difference (P>0.05) was observed between the two suture techniques. There were significant differences between postoperative days related to the counting of neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages and lymphocytes. It was also measured the thickness of operated regions (scar) and non operated nearby areas (control); it registered differences between the postoperative days and the regions (P<0.05), but not between the sutures. The polyglactin 910 and the cyanoacrilate showed the same efficacy to be used in appositional enterorrhaphies in equine descending colon.
equine; polyglactin; cyanoacrilate; descending colon; enterorrhaphy; morphometry
