The use of a combined sliding skin graft and a free labial mucocutaneous graft for reconstruction of the equine upper eyelid after full‐thickness excision of a melanoma

Abstract

Key Clinical Message A melanoma of the upper eyelid was resected in a gray warmblood gelding. A full functional eyelid could be obtained by completion a sliding skin graft with a free labial mucocutaneous graft transplantation to restore the mucocutaneous junction and to decrease the risk of postoperative trichiasis.

Keywords

• eyelid melanoma
• free labial mucocutaneous graft
• horse
• mucocutaneous junction
• sliding skin graft