Un caso de queratoma en el casco de un caballo
- Manso Díaz, Gabriel
- Rubio Guerri, C.
- Sánchez Maldonado, B.
ISSN: 1988-2688
Year of publication: 2008
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 114-119
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista complutense de ciencias veterinarias
Abstract
Keratomas are uncommon benign neoplasms of the horse hoof with epithelial origin, which are developed from keratin-producing squamous cells of the hoof wall. Normally these processes are related to a previous history of intermittent lameness. Clinical, macroscopic and histopathologic features of a keratoma in the hoof of a horse with a clinical history of chronic lameness are described in this paper. The animal showed a deformity of the hoof frog due to the presence of a mass located at the junction of the coronary band with the white line. A neoplasic proliferation was observed at the histopathologic examination, consisting of epithelial cells and several layers of keratin.