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wstphal said:
Make sure the now clean crater doesn't scab over. If it does it will fill back up with nastiness. It needs to stay open to avoid that, and swabbing off any forming scab with a q-tip might help. Check with your vet on how best to keep it from scabbing over without damaging it as it heals from the bottom in, I am NOT an expert on that in reptiles (I'd know what to tell you for mammals).
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I'm with Betsy on this, I treat wounds like that for people at work, and one of the cats I had years ago was a fighter, abcessess to deal with all the time! Could the wound be packed in any way?
 
Fascinating! I know this is going to sound really gross, but did you happen to catch the smell on all that? I'd be interested to know myself. Also, did you just throw it away or did you bring it to your vet?
 
Oh, that reminds me. When I treated the abcess on my hognose, I packed it with silver sulfadine.
 
I threw it away(no way in hell that I was going to smell that thing). I remind you that this is a follow-up treatment. He already operated on the snake and it was expected. He saw the extract back then, and it's the same now, just more fresh. It is not a tumor.
The wound itself loosely closed itself during the night, and connective tissue will re-attach and close the gape- not allowing it to close is counter-productive, else the hole will never seal itself and infection will reoccur all the time.
If kept clean, there's no reason for it to get refilled with infection for the short duration until it closes itself(it's not as automatic as the impressions some of the messages here seem to leave) - it happened because the area was infected to begin with.

I got it covered.
 
So glad my wife didn't walk in to see me viewing this. She can barely handle seeing pictures of snakes, I think she'd of left me if she saw this.
 
Whoa, Oren! Glad that you were able to get it taken care of and that the prognosis for Quasimodo. Interesting "grossness" there! Informative as well. Give my regards to Quasimodo!!!
 
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