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To Deborah Riccio:
Deborah - I talked with Dr. Balonek todya about this ferret. My
suggestion is to take a look in the abdomen to see if we can find a pancreatic
neoplasm and also take one of those big inguinal nodes. I do advocate surgery
over medicine every day, but you also have to throw the animal's age,
debilitation, and sometimes other factors such as economics into the equation.
I do know that no practitioners are really thrilled with proglycem for
insulinoma, and it gets very expensive very quickly.
It' still your decision - if it was my ferret, and I trusted Dr.
Balonek's skill, I'd go for the surgery.
Bruce Williams, DVM Department of Veterinary Pathology
[log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
(202) 782-2600/2602 Washington, D.C. 20306-6000
[Posted in FML issue 1150]
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