From:
mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2004-05-04 23:54:45 UTC
Subject: RE: distended bladder/ update
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1911911.1083714885886.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Yes, they can grow back. I seem to recall Dr. Kemmerer saying at the symposium in Atlanta that when she removes adrenal tissue, she is extremely careful flushing out the abdomenal area. Just a few stray cells dropped anywhere in the abdominal cavity could cause a repeat problem.
If the adrenals are removed 100%, then yes, that's the end of any adrenal problems. But if that were the case, Koda would have died without any supplemental hormones which you say you didn't give him. So there must have been some adrenal tissue somewhere. And in that case, you can have a return of all the same problems.
mike
Author wrote:
> Since there was adrenal tissue left can the adrenal tumors grow back? can the little amount of tissue thats left cause all the other problems Koda is having now without being able to see a tumor? I thought I understood adrenal tumors but I guess I don't. I thought once the adrenal glands were removed you would no longer have adrenal problems. Is it common to then have three or four adrenal sugeries in a ferrets life time?