Hi Karen, I understand very well how much you can be worried but what you describe, is not inevitably a malignant tumor. Go to : http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1593&articleid=424 and look the picture. Is it the same ? You can also read all the table and you will see a lot of conditions (most begnin) Histiocytoma is also a begnin tumor ; go to : http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&articleid=445 You said Stevie had a spot hot this summer ... so, may be Stevie is allergic ... (my Boy Phlibust is food allergic and got hot spots when he reacts). May be it is a deep inflammation of hair follicles (my Girl Wonda got one this year) ... May be it is a reaction to the saliva of an insect ...
You know, there is full of possible hypotheses. Hope that I help you ;-))) Corinne (sorry for my bad english language) Phlibust & Wonda Near Paris (France) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay it is paranoid me again! I wrote to an on-line vet yesterday evening > about the small growth on Stevie's muzzle. I had originally wrote to the > list thinking that this was a "hot spot" , not knowing full well that "hot > spots" do not usually occur on the face. (Stevie had a hot spot on his > foreleg this summer) Anyway, the vet wrote back suggesting that it might be > a histiocytoma. Does anyone have any input into this. Of course I have been > frantically looking around the net for more information. I have an appt. > with our vet tomorrow, and now I am just worried sick. I am I am becoming a > neurotic freak!!!!! In my email to the list yesterday I described this > growth as a pinkish, reddish looking mole type of lump just on the side of > his muzzle. There is now no hair around it. I am not sure if he rubbed it or > just why there is no hair there. The "mole" is about the size of a small pea > and round. It does not appear to be painful. Has any one out there had > anything similar. I know, I know I should just wait until tomorrow when I > see the vet, but I am upset NOW and dreadfully worried. With all the cancer > horror stories out there I am afraid. Sorry to sound like such a baby. > Karen and her beautiful Boy Stevie. > N.B. Canada
