Histiocitom: Benigni Pasji Tumor Z Ne Tako Prijaznim Videzom In Občutkom

2024 Avtor: Daisy Haig | [email protected]. Nazadnje spremenjeno: 2023-12-17 03:13

Oba moja francoska buldoga sta trpela zaradi grdih, pogosto srbečih in tehnično benignih tumorjev, ki jih imenujemo histiocitomi. Čeprav se histiocitomi običajno razrešijo po dveh do treh mesecih, negotovost porekla tega tumorja povzroči, da ga večina veterinarjev odreže (ali vsaj del), da se zagotovi njegova benignost.

Kirurško lajšanje benigne mase vam lahko zveni skrajno, a ker so lahko histiocitomi nadležni in strašljivi, je pogosto indiciran kirurški poseg.

Moteče: Ker se pogosto pojavijo na glavi in nogah, se na krajih, kjer se popolnoma okrogla, razjedena masa zlahka opraska ali liže.

Strašljivo: ker je težko ugotoviti, ali je tisto, kar se je pravkar pojavilo na koži vašega psa (in se običajno zgodi hitro), grd tumor mastocitov (ali katera druga takšna pošastna masa) … ali njegov lažji bratranec, histiocitom.

Strašljivo: ker je težko ugotoviti, ali je tisto, kar se je pravkar pojavilo na koži vašega psa (in se običajno zgodi hitro), grd tumor mastocitov (ali katera druga takšna pošastna masa) … ali njegov lažji bratranec, histiocitom.

while young dogs (under three years of age) are more likely to get these, they can happen to dogs of any age. indeed, my older frenchie, sophie sue got one about a year ago. she was nine-not exactly a spring chicken. vincent has had three. and he’s not yet two years old.

some breeds are more predisposed. labrador retrievers and boxers, for example. though frenchies aren’t on the list, perhaps they should be… (perhaps they should be on the list for almost everything if my recent round of healthcare scares is any guide.)

ugly and prominently placed as they typically are, most owners want histiocytomas removed. some vets, however, will counsel owners to either wait a few weeks (especially if the dog is young and statistically less likely to be suffering from a malignant mass) or to have a simple section of it snipped (with a local anesthetic) for histopathological analysis at the pathology lab.

other vets will even take a needle poke at it, though most pathologists find that histiocytomas are not easily disgnosed definitively through this method (cytology).

if the dog is older or the mass is especially annoying to the dog or owner, however, we remove the whole sucker and clean up the mess quickly. unfortunately, though, this approach is more costly and usually requires general anesthesia. it’s nonetheless the approach i take for more than half of these tumors…better to be safe than sorry, right?

still, most owners need to know they have a choice. the nervous nellies among you (like me) are less likely to want to stare at a mass for a couple of months to see if it simply goes away. the rational or more anesthetically cautious, however, are justified in waiting-as long as their dog is young and/or hasn’t suffered from malignant masses in the past.

whatever choice you make, consider histiocytomas an excellent foray into the world of skin tumors. it’s like a warm-up for what’s likely to come as your dog ages. and it’s not all bad. look on the bright side: curing cancer is sometimes just a scalpel slice away.