Rinnovati R, Xenos S, Beltrame A, Marigo A, Forni G, Morini M. Subcutaneous neurofibroma as a cause of lameness in a warmblood horse: Neurofibroma in a horse.
J Equine Sci 2020;
31:45-48. [PMID:
33061783 PMCID:
PMC7538260 DOI:
10.1294/jes.31.45]
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Abstract
A neurofibroma was excised from the subcutis on the medial side of the left thigh of a
15-year-old Warmblood gelding, which had shown lameness of the left hind limb. No other
source of lameness was found. Two weeks after surgery, the horse was sound at a lameness
examination.
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