INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 2

Surgical and chemotherapeutic management of corneal squamous cell carcinoma in a mare

  • Author:
  • Shahid Hussain Dar, M.R. Fazili
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 413 to 415

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

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

Online published on 1 October, 2020.

Abstract

A mare was presented with complaint of mass on the right eye for last six months. Physical examination, confirmed a pinkish mass covering 1/3rd of cornea from limbus. On histopathological examination, it was diagnosed squamous cell carcinoma of cornea. Mass was resected surgically and chemotherapy was undertaken with 1 percent 5-flourouracil as opthalmic solution four times a day for five days and repeat after month for three cycles. There was no recurrence during one year of study period.

Keywords

5-flourouracil, Cornea, Chemotherapy, Squamous cell carcinoma