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

Surgical Management of Coenurus Cyst in Palpebral Sub-Conjunctiva in a Sheep

  • Author:
  • S.H. Dar, I.M. Allaie, Z.A. Wani
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 443 to 445

Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST-K), Shuhama Alusteng, Srinagar-190006, Jammu and Kashmir

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

Online published on 26 July, 2017.

Abstract

A two years old ram was presented with complaint of swelling over left lower eye lid. On physical examination, the bulbar conjunctiva of lower eye lid was swollen. After incising the conjunctiva, the white fluid filled cyst was removed. It was a flabby ovoid structure with many white nodules visible through a very thin wall. On morphological examination, cyst was identified as coenurus cyst. The animal thereafter recovered uneventfully

Keywords

Coenurus cyst, palpebral sub-conjunctiva, sheep