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Gill Bridgeman
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Username: Gillb

Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, Oct 16, 2003 - 1:12 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
Can you tell me whether the papilloma recently diagnosed in my horse's sheath (I think it is called squamous papilloma) would be the same kind of papilloma virus that causes the warts on young horses' muzzles? If so, is it also contagious in the same way?

The vet said some papillomas spontaneously regress but because of the size it is unlikely to go away of its own accord and may even start to grow more aggressively, so it is being frozen off.
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Post Number: 9290
Registered: 1-1997
Posted on Friday, Oct 17, 2003 - 10:17 am:   Edit PostPrint Post
It seems unlikely this is viral induced warts and these would have characteristic changes noted in the biopsy.
DrO
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JANETTE MCDOWELL
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Username: Westks

Post Number: 72
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Saturday, Oct 18, 2003 - 1:19 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
I have seen this before and once skin broke on wart,( must have knocked top off rubbing) it seems antibodies in horse kicked in and they all disappeared with in a few weeks. Both on nose and sheath.
I do not know if this is same type?
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