INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Surgical Removal of Wooden Splinter from Eye of Buffalo

  • Author:
  • A.K. Gangwar, Sangeeta Devi Khangembam, Mahesh Kumar Verma
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 356 to 357

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology (NDUAT), Kumarganj, Faizabad-224229, Uttar Pradesh

*Corresponding author E-mail: dranilvet2007@gmail.com

Online published on 26 July, 2017.

Abstract

A she buffalo was presented with penetrating wooden splinter at 6 o’clock position near the limbus of eye. After light sedation and retrobulber nerve block the wooden splinter was carefully removed using an artery forceps. Post-operative treatment included Tobramycin eye drop and antibiotic ointment.

Keywords

Buffalo, ocular, wooden splinter