This was under "Royal Corn" - but as she definitely isn't I've started a new topic.

Well, Miss Snakey (aka Noelle or Yuki) - I still have her and she had been undergoing various antibiotics. Today I took her to vet for an update as her wound (supposedly bite-induced after being with 2 other corns in same enclosure) didn't seem to be a lot better - she kept opening the wound and it would bleed. Well the scab had dried off quite a bit but the vet thought it would be better for him to operate immediately to remove the scab, close up the wound (which is some 1 1/2 inches in diameter) and maybe do a skin graft. (He is away in the US for a few days now so thought he'd do it before he went)

Well he phoned me about an hour ago to say the operation as it was was a success (she was still sleepy and I can ring again later to see how she's doing) - but he had found some of the tissue sourrounding it was strange looking - and it could be indicative of a tumor which had caused the wound (he had forgotten I think that I had said it was probably a bite) - this abnormal tissue is apparently white and hard tissuey (if I can remember right) and he's sending it off for analysis and we won't know for a week to 10 days. When I reminded him that the wound was supposed to be from a bite he sounded a bit more optimistic that it might not be a tumor.

I'm not sure what I'm looking for here, I guess, but has this happened to anyone else? Can bites tissue resemble tumor tissue? and if it is a snake tumor (i.e. cancer - but he didn't use that word) are they curable or maybe non-malignant?

I feel so devastated now after all she's been through with those f*****s that couldn't give a s**t about their reptiles - I really thought everything would be OK.