http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=468 Author wrote: >is there sometimes a correlation between WHERE the hair loss is and what >kind of adrenal issue critter is dealing with? No - you can see any pattern of hair loss with any type of lesion. So give your brain a break. >as for professor, or mr. lumpy-vein in tummy: his owner was leaning >against surgical removal and after your comments i think her decision >would be more firm. usually benign = don't mess with it. In my book - usually benign mean if this one turns out to be malignant -- boy, won't the owner feel terrible. We don't know enough about mammary tumors to say whether this approach is good or not. However, a mammary gland is actually a modified apocrine sweat gland, and we do know that apocrine tumors account for more malignancies than any other skin tumor.... With kindest regards, Bruce Williams, DVM --------- http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/ (Easily searched FHL archives) http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth (the FHL addy for several weeks now) [Posted in FML issue 3854]