desmotomy

Preferably patellar desmotomy should be performed that relief may be obtained at once.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

This desmotomy has been advocated by Bassi, and good results in appropriate cases have been reported by Cadiot, Merillat and Schumacher.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

The desmotomy is also performed with standing sedation and a local cutting of the medial patellar ligament at the level of its insertion.

TheHorse.com News 2009

The two surgical techniques discussed were patellar ligament fenestration and patellar ligament desmotomy.

TheHorse.com News 2009