Saturday, May 22, 2010

Anyone else out there had experience with unusual quarter sized growths in dead socket of one eye'd horse?

Before anyone says "VET" he had surgery yesterday, we are impatiently awaiting biopsy results and I am looking for comfort wherever I can find it.
He is a 10 YO TWH gelding, blind in one eye since about 6 months when he was shot with a BB gun. Eye was surgically removed. He's been with me for 6 years, is a great trail horse.
He has been placed in a great home for the past two riding seasons with a friend who had the eyelids fused for sanitary reasons. (It was not for cosmetic reasons, she rides hers in their fly masks.)
She had the eye re-opened because of inflammation caused by these growths.
We're hoping either papilloma or sarcoid of some sort that can be dealt with, and praying it isn't an unusual squamous cell cancer.
So remember our boy in your prayers and please tell me if you've had a similar experience, how good it all turned out in the end.
Answers:
It does sound like a cancer, im so sorry.
Sounds like a tumor. Very few horses live from this. I hope it isn 't!
My horse has a growth also, I hate to give you bad news but his growth was unusual squamous cell cancer. Mine is doing fine with ointments and keeping the area clean, It looks terrible and people usually freak out but he is doing good.
No experience with a nodule in that area; however we had some on a horse's chest of the same size. We had a biopsy done and sent to lab for examination. The results came back which said the horse was allergic to bugs. What a shock it was to us.

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