More than 75 submitted abstracts

A special thanks to all the Authors for their contribution!

All abstracts have been forwarded to the Scientific Committee for review. Abstracts are required for evaluation but will not be fully published in the proceedings, which will only include titles and authors, to avoid impacting future publications.

Once the review process of all submitted abstracts is completed, authors will receive an e-mail informing whether the abstract has been accepted and whether it has been selected for poster or for oral presentation.

All abstract presenters (first author) must register for the Congress and are granted a 30% reduction on the Congress registration fee. Submitted abstracts will be accepted and published in the conference proceedings only upon receipt of payment.

ESVOT POLICY ON THE USE OF
ANIMALS IN RESEARCH

ESVOT aims to promote and advance the standards of orthopaedics and traumatology in veterinary species through clinical research and training. We encourage robust clinical and translational research in the area of veterinary orthopaedics.
Such research may often involve prospective or retrospective studies on animals or ex vivo or in vitro studies on animal tissues. Studies on veterinary patients should not involve unnecessary interventions with the sole purpose of research; in other words, all interventions on veterinary patients should be for the intended benefit of the individual animal.
All such research should have local Ethics Committee approval as well as any local, regional or national licences when required; abstracts submitted should state this is the case when indicated.

As a scientific society concerned with the health and welfare of animals, ESVOT acknowledges that sometimes research on animals is necessary for the benefit of human and animal health. However, we strongly support the 3R tenets of Russell and Burch, namely ‘replacement, refinement and reduction’ of animals in research, as supported by the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (www.iclas.org) and embedded in the European Union Directive 2010/63/EU
(http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:276:0033:0079:EN:PDF).

Moreover, ESVOT will not accept any studies for presentation or publication that involve the use of live dogs, cats, horses or non-human primates in invasive experimentation.