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QUITTOR

VetBooks.ir Quittor is the name given to chronic infection of a collateral cartilage of the horse’s foot.

Causes

It can be caused by:

• a penetrating injury

• a wire cut

• a blow or brushing injury to the cartilage
• the cartilage being trodden on by the opposite foot or by another horse

• a long-standing deep quarter crack or infection of the white line.

Clinical signs

These include:
• variable degrees of lameness

• one or more discharging wounds above the coronet adjacent to the infected cartilage

(Figure 6.60)
• heat and swelling over the area

• pain when pressure is applied.