Sandeep Saharan

Therapeutic Management and Histopathological Study of Sarcoid tumours in Equine

The sarcoid is a type of skin tumor that affects the equine family. Equine sarcoids are locally invasive, fibroblastic skin tumors and represent the most common skin tumor in equidae worldwide (Jackson 1936; Ragland et al., 1970; Pascoe and Summers 1981). They can occur as single lesion or more commonly multiple lesions in different forms ranging from small wart-like protuberances to large ulcerated fibrous growths. The main types of sarcoid are occult, verrucous, nodular, fibroblast, mixed and malignant types. This disease seldom kills the horse but many horses lose their body condition up to such an extent that they have to be destroyed on humanitarian ground. It is quite often difficult to diagnose a lesion as a sarcoid because sarcoids have close resemblance with other skin conditions. These tumours are persistent, grey and hairless; often circular or roughly circular and probably represent the earliest form of the disease. Some of these lesions remain static for years without any clinical implication. Careful palpation of the lesion will usually reveal one, several or occasionally many tiny nodules in the skin of the affected area. The skin may also feel slightly thickened and lacking in its normal elasticity. Histopathological study International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 10 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com