Skip to main content
Skip to main content

Feature Presentation: Turner’s Ten-second Tonsil Technique

See it for yourself: AASV’s Got Talent! Check out the winning presentation from the Practice Tips seminar at the AASV 2010 Annual Meeting. It’s online now as part of the AASV Video Library, where it joins the recorded general session presentations from the conference. In Turner’s Ten-second Tonsil Technique, Dr. Matthew Turner demonstrates a quick and easy way to remove the tonsil during a routine swine necropsy. Analysis of the tonsil is an important tool in the diagnosis of a number of endemic swine diseases, and is also part of a USDA surveillance program for classical swine fever. For more information regarding preparation and submission of tonsil samples for analysis, see the publication, Got Tonsil?