The
Vet
Phone 01254 53622
The VETerinary Health Centre,
Daisy St.
Blackburn,
Lancashire, BB1 5EW
serving Blackburn, Darwen, Accrington, Rishton, Great Harwood,
Clayton-le-Moors, Oswaldtwistle, Langho, Whalley and Clitheroe
USA:
U.S. Dermatologist Lowell Ackerman has discovered
and used pictures from this website in his new book on Veterinary Dermatology
book
Australia Parts of our website are now being used for teaching vet nurses on
Gilles Plains Campus
JAPAN:
Our Firework Phobia leaflet is now in use in
Japan!! (Download
Japanese version)
Lydia waking up after the anaesthetic, still very groggy!
Lydia, a 3 yr old 7 foot
Reticulated Python
was brought to us with a puffy swelling
the size of a small grape on her face above her upper lip. It didn't seem to
be sore, she was eating well and active. An abscess was suspected and a
course of antibiotics was started. By early December the swelling had
reduced to the size of a pea but was very hard. Anticipating a possible
underlying tumour we decided that we should remove it surgically. We
anaesthetised Lydia using Isoflurane gas anaesthetic by mask. She accepted
this well and after about 15 minutes we were able to intubate her and proceed
with the surgery. Once we were through the skin we found a dense hard mass
that we were able to detach from the surrounding tissues and remove. We
closed the skin with nylon sutures and gave her a 15 minute bath in water at
28 degrees C until she was fully awake. She was soon back to normal. We
examined the tissue we had removed and found it to be a cyst full of dense
impacted material.
Close up of the operation wound before stitching
Closing the wound, the cyst removed is on the swab.
