Green Tree Python with sub spectacular abscess left eye (arrowed).

The snake is anaesthetised for surgery to drain and lavage the build up of purulent material underneath is spectacle.

A ventral slot is cut into the spectacle to allow lavage and continued drainage.

The infection had spread up the nasolacrimal duct from a mouth infection (stomatitis).

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