Successful medical management of intra-abdominal abscesses ...
Case 3. An 8-year-old Quarter horse mare, 4 months pregnant, weighing 470 kg was presented at the KSVM-VTH due to peritonitis. One of the other 5 horses residing on the same farm suffered from a sub-mandibular abscess 6 wk prior to referral that was suspected to have been caused by a foreign body, but this had resolved spontaneously without any other clinical signs.