From:
"salome1331"
Date: 2008-08-25 16:59:30 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: tumor in the perianal area
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Looks like we lost this bet. Surgery was today, the vet says it was
indeed a tumor (I'm guessing that once in surgery there's enough
visual to difference to distinguish tumor from cyst from random other
strange problem). It will be sent off, and we should hear more on that
next week.
At least the little one came through surgery - we're waiting for her
to be awake enough to be sure there's no nerve damage or anything.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "salome1331" <salome1331@...> wrote:
>
> There's been no time to send anything out. This thing has doubled in
> size in less than a week and is now going right up under the tail
> (originally it was around 10 or 11 o'clock). The vet read the aspirate
> Wednesday, and she said cancer cells, but I was having to go back and
> forth through her tech on that because this has come up so fast and we
> were squeezing in to a full schedule. I spoke with her today, but was
> discussing her personal experience with these (she's seen similar in
> dogs and rats, but not in ferrets in 20+ years of practice - and she
> is an exotics vet). Is confusion with apocrine cyst likely in the
> circumstances? (I'd really really love for it to be, but...ferrets).
>
> Should I see if she still has the slide to send off somewhere?
>
> Thanks
>
> --- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sukie Crandall" <sukie@> wrote:
> >
> > Who read the slides? Was it a veterinary pathologist who is used to
> ferrets or a general
> > vet? Obviously, an expect in ferret veterinary pathology is going
> to be less likely to
> > confuse an apocrine cyst with a malignant apocrine tumor, but if a
> ferret pathologist
> > didn't read it then perhaps you have some more room for hope.
>
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