From:
dr_bruce_williams
Date: 2002-06-12 18:56:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Cutaneous hematoma
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Roger Vaughn" <rvaughn@p...> wrote:
> What else could look like - or cause - a hematoma on the skin?
>
> One of our newest has a lump behind one of his legs. There is a
hard
> mass underneath it the size and shape of a baby pea, but the mass
isn't
> really visible itself. There was what appeared to be a small
hematoma
> visible on the surface of the skin, though.
Reoger, I don't get a really good mental picture as to what i going
on here. In hematomas, however, you often get a large clot, which
feels like a hard not. Another possibility behing the leg is always
an enlarged lymph node, so lymphoma is always a possibility (of
course this is subject to where the node is) There are some other
cutnaeous tumors which don't have a bad prognosis.
Two suggestions:
1) if you can take and post a picture showing the location of the
tumor, it may help to refine the possibilities.
2) Let's go ahead and have it removed in the next couple of weeks.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM