From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-08-12 18:10:11 UTC
Subject: RE: Strange umbilicus on a puppy
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5648747.1092334211120.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> What about genetic syndromes which cause hyperkeratosis or ichthyosis just as a possibility in the back of your mind?
Also, I can not download it so you'll have to try, but on a serious note I found in Google:
>Acquired Ichthyosis. ... collective term for a metastatic
>deposit at the umbilicus originating from any primary malignancy. ...
> www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/ postgradmededuc/Grand%20Rounds2.ppt
Now, the chances of something like that seem to be very rare, but if you are collecting possible causes it sounds like ti could be something to know about.
More relieving is the mention in
http://www.asnsw.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/icd/680-709.htm
of carbuncle and furuncle. Has a dermatologist seen it?
Please, remember that these are nothing more than shots in the dark of possible things to look at and eliminate. I am not a vet, and I don't know which of these ferrets can even get, but since you and your vet are familiar with it perhaps searching on such things may be useful or may lead to yet something else which actually fits..