When it comes to equine axillary wounds—those that damage the space between the inside of the upper limb and the body wall—the part you can see on your horse's skin might be the proverbial tip of the ...
Dear Dr. Vittoria: My gelding George has a wound over his fetlock that has been open and oozing for almost six months. It started as a cut from the fence, and I treated it with spray and ointments. I ...
Horse hooves are formed of insensitive, cornified material called horn and can be very resilient to penetration by an object. Inside the hoof capsule lies bone, joints, tendons, ligaments and other ...
You might have heard about the value of using medical maggots to clean infected, nonhealing wounds in horses and humans, but did you know they can also help clean up infection in structures deep ...