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>My little Toby, 3 and half year male Albino has a wart like growth on the
>side of his back foot. It's a pink bubble with a small crust on top. I
>live in Jordan and no Vets here know anything about Ferrets. Can anyone
>help with what this might be?
Dear Nadine:
Sounds lilke a skin tumor - tough to tell, because the warty part sounds
like a sebaceous epithelioma, but the crusty part sounds like a mast cell
tumor, the second most common. You can find out more about these tumors at
my home page at http://www.afip.org, and there are pictures of them there
too - take a look in the "What's New in Ferret Medicine" Powerpoint
presentation...
This is a case where a picture of the lesion would be worth a thousand
words - I don't think we can get any more specific without a picture. At
any rate, what you describe is something that I would suggest removing
surgically and having a pathologist look at. Both of those tumors are
benign, but its best to get it looked at.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP
[Posted in FML issue 3202]
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