A 14 year old gelding, showing neurologic symptoms and a visible swell
ing in the right upper cervical region was hospitalized to the 1. Medi
cal Clinic: During subsequent diagnostical sonographic examination the
right thyroid gland lobe showed multiple echoanomalies, suspicious to
hematoma, abscesses or neoplasms. interpretation as hematoma was poss
ible by fine needle biopsy. Considering anamnesis a traumatic etiology
was supposed.