Abstract

Surgical Manangement of Lick granuloma in a Boxer Dog

Highlights

  • Lick granuloma or acral lick dermatitis or neurodermitis a common psychogenic dermatitis (Jubb et al, 1993) characterized by deep-seated and slow-healing skin infection as a result of excessive, chronic licking (Vegad and Kathiyar, 2004) seen in large and active breeds of Dogs

  • For identification of the underlying cause a number of tests like skin scraping, skin biopsy, fine needle aspiration, fungal and bacterial culture and radiography were undertaken but these could not provided any positive evidence which ruled out other conditions from lick granuloma

  • It was anaesthetized with a combination of 0.56 mg of atropine sulphate @ 0.04mg/kg body weight, 14 mg of xylazine hydrochloride @ 1mg/kg body weight and 140 mg of ketamine hydrochloride @ 10mg/kg body weight given intramuscularly

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Summary

Introduction

Lick granuloma or acral lick dermatitis or neurodermitis a common psychogenic dermatitis (Jubb et al, 1993) characterized by deep-seated and slow-healing skin infection as a result of excessive, chronic licking (Vegad and Kathiyar, 2004) seen in large and active breeds of Dogs. It can be seen irrespective of breed of canines whose causes are various. In the present case there was no fracture and it was refractory to all the medicinal treatments. It was refractory to the previous medicinal treatments

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