Gross and Histopathology of Goats Feeding on Opuntia stricta in Laikipia County, Kenya

Figure 11

Numerous Opuntia stricta thorns deep in the muscles of the goat lip and the associated multifocal granulomas (blue arrows). The epidermal layer is necrotized and eroded (ulcerated) (black arrows), and skeletal muscles have been replaced by granulomatous tissue reaction (red arrows) in a goat with severe chronic cheilitis (H&E x40).