Abstract

A four-year-old and six-year-old Holstein-Friesian crossbred cows were presented to TVCC, Mannuthy with a protruding soft tissue mass from the medial canthus in the left eye. On examination, the lesion was extensively spread which impaired vision and complete loss of architecture of the ocular structures in one animal and medial canthus growth encircled the ocular structures in another animal. The conditions were surgically managed by extirpation of eye ball in one case and surgical excision of mass salvaging eye in the other case.  The histopathology of the excised mass revealed the condition was ocular squamous cell carcinoma. The animals had an uneventful recovery.

Keywords : Bovine, ocular squamous cell carcinoma, extirpation, epithelial pearls, cell nest