A horse that had received a penetrating abdominal injury from running into a metal rose trellis developed complications more than a month after the event. The initial puncture wound healed slowly, but the horse developed a fever, showed signs of abdominal pain, and lost weight weeks after the accident. The Polish Warmblood was taken to the Clinic for Horses at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany, where veterinarians found that the horse had an abscess on his spleen.

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