Electrochemotherapy with intra-tumoral cisplatin for the treatment of fibrosarcoma in a horse

• Published in: Indian journal of animal research
• Main Authors: Bharathidasan, M., William, B. Justin, George, Ravi Sundar George Sundar, Arunprasad, A., Sivasankar, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.04.2019
• ISSN: 0367-6722; 0976-0555
• DOI: 10.18805/ijar.B-3532

A two years old Kathiawar stallion was reported with the history of two, pedunculated hard mass medially on the thigh and hock of the right hind limb, progressively increasing for the past two months. Fine needle aspiration cytology revealed fibrosarcoma.The tumour on the medial aspect of the thigh was injected with cisplatin intra-tumorally at a dose rate of 0.3 mg/cm3 of tumour volume and was exposed to ECT. The tumour on the medial aspect of the hock was excised incompletely to preserve skin and subcutaneous tissues around the tumour for wound opposition and treated with intra-tumoral injection of cisplatin followed by ECT. Following electrochemotherapy complete response was noticed onthe 3rd and 4th week for the tumours on the thigh and hock respectively. No recurrence was noticed during the follow-up period of one year revealing ETC with cisplatin as a single treatment and also in combination with surgery is effective for the treatment of fibrosarcoma in equines.