Ocular Surgery for Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Authors

  • Bruce L. Hull Department of Food Animal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19896876

Keywords:

ocular carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, enucleation, exenteration, less radical therapy, immunotherapy, cryosurgery, radiofrequency hyperthermia, Beta radiation, surgical removal

Abstract

In treating ocular squamous cell carcinoma in cattle, certainly enucleation or exenteration have been the time honored methods of choice. In many cases they may still be the methods of choice, however, as they leave a unilaterally blind animal, other less radical methods of therapy should be used whenever possible. Less radical therapeutic approaches should include: 1) immunotherapy, 2) cryosurgery, 3) radiofrequency hyperthermia, 4) Beta radiation, and 5) surgical removal of the tumor tissue without complete enucleation.

Cover image of the 22nd Conference Proceedings: it is the golden hour of the evening and a herd of cattle stand in an orange-tinted field, gazing lazily at the photographer.

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Published

1989-11-14

Issue

1989

Section

General Session II