Suspected sarcoid, can anyone have a look for me please?

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We really don't seem to be having much luck at the moment!

There has been a patch of dry looking skin on our mare's upper eyelid since the beginning of the summer, we put it down to a rub as a couple of years previously she did nearly manage to poke her eye out with a bramble and the pierced skin was exactly where this dry patch was, so we put it down to her being clumsy.

She lives out 24/7 so we don't make a habit of brushing willy nilly but today after she was bombarded by birds and covered in bird poo (somehow also under her rug!) we gave her a top-to-toe pamper, whilst sponging around her eyes I knocked the dry patch and underneath it looked red and angry, and somewhat lumpy. It looks to be an occult sarcoid, I got hubby to take a quick pic and we are phoning the veterinary surgery tomorrow, but I wondered if in the meantime anyone could take a look at the photo and say if they think it is a sarcoid?

I haven't resized the pic as I thought the bigger the better.

We've owned her since she was 3 months old and she is 4 in May, no other lesions anywhere on her body.

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If anyone has any experience of occult sarcoids any info would be greatly appreciated, obviously being so close to her eye will make it a bugger to treat!
 
Not sure but If you can get a good clear picture, email it to Proff Derek knottenbelt at Leahurst equine Hospital. I`m sure you could find his email address with a geogle search.
 
I've managed to look at the picture, when I first read thus post I was at work and picture didn't load.

Sorry to say that it looks very similar to the sarcoid my young gelding had in exactly the same place.
I hope I'm wrong.

Has the vet seen it?
 
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