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>I work as a surgical tech for our vet clinic, and had one of my ferrets,
>Barney, in last week for his annual exam. Found a mass on his abdomen
>that we biopsied this week and it came back as a dermal fibroma.
Dear Z:
This is not an uncommon finding in the skin of ferrets, and may go by
a number of other names - collagenous nevus, adnexal dysplasia, among
others. Many are probably also read out as old scars.
These tumors tend to grow very slowly, and are completely benign - nothing
to worry about at this point. Unless it really starts to bother him, I
would just tend to follow the pathologists advice - only remove it if it
starts to cause a problem.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
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[Posted in FML issue 3780]
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