INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Surgical management of right horn squamous cell carcinoma-A report of two white coat cattle

  • Author:
  • Mudasir Ahmad Shah1,, Zahoor Ahmad War2, Javeed Ahmad Dar2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 98 to 99

1Ph. D. Scholar Division of Veterinary Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, Bareilly-243122 (Uttar Pradesh)

2Ph. D. Scholar, Division of Veterinary Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, Bareilly-243122 (Uttar Pradesh)

Division of Veterinary Surgery, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, Bareilly-243122 (Uttar Pradesh)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: syedmudasirshah907@gmail.com

Online published on 5 November, 2018.

Abstract

Two adult cows were presented with complaint of growing hard mass showing irritation with few bleeding spots at the right horn since last two months. Tentatively the animals were diagnosed with horn cancer, which was later confirmed as squamous cell carcinoma by histopathological examination. Radical excision after sedation and cornual nerve block was under taken. Post-operatively, animal was kept on Enrofloxacin and Meloxicam for five days with daily antiseptic dressing with no complications or regrowth.

Keywords

Cancer, epithelial pearl, horn, squamous cell carcinoma