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Date: | Mon, 22 May 1995 07:08:34 -0400 |
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To Judy Gallipeau:
Another surgical fallacy - you can't just look at an adrenal and say
it's normal - doesn't matter how good a surgeon you are. I often see
proliferative adrenal lesions in adrenals that look grossly normal.
If you can conivnce them to run the test - it'll take a month to get
the test results back due to the long time it takes to prepare the material -
this will tell you not only if the estrogens are elevated, but also if they are
coming from the adrenals (as several pre-hormones from the adrenal are being
tested for).
You shouldn't be at your wits end, because your vets haven't done all
of the diagnostics available yet. REmember - the most common source of
elevated estrogens in ferrets is adrenal disease - but aside from loking at the
adrenals and saying "Hey, they don't look too big", this aspect really hasn't
been investigated yet.
--
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP Department of Veterinary Pathology
[log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
[log in to unmask] Washington, D.C. 20306-6000
(202) 782-2600/2602
[Posted in FML issue 1201]
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