Princess Buttercup

So my sweet Princess Buttercup is headed to the vet tomorrow to check these lumps on each side of her neck. She's had them for a while & they seem to range between the size of a pea up to a large marble. However, this time they haven't returned to pea sized. There is one on each side so, originally I thought they were lymph nodes but they seem more like subcutaneous masses. So has anyone else dealt with anything similar? What questions should I pose to the vet tomorrow? I'm expecting them to biopsy them but part of me would just like them gone to ease my mind. She's up for a teeth cleaning so now might be the time to have them removed. Thanks in advance for your help. PB would say thank you too but she's still sleeping off our weekend camping trip.

Wworm

Hi Princess B,

Coincidence-- i'm going to the vet on Friday too for a lump near my armpit. my person says it's weird because her last doggie had one too in the same place! actually, nothing had to be done-- the vet recognized it as a lipoma (like a benign fatty tumor), and nothing had to be done, not even a biopsy... here's hoping for you and me...!

howdy'a like campin'?

--Worm

klm42005

Good luck PB and Wwormie.....hopefully the only lumps you have are all sugar...

Keep us posted

Princess Buttercup

Oh Worm I loved camping! You can see my brand new sleeping bag in my photo. I slept inside it covered up all night! The two leggers liked leashing me up & unzipping the tent in the AM without getting outta their sleeping bags too! I still smell a little like a campfire & keep hoping it just makes everybody want a s'more instead of reminding them I might need a bath soon. Paws crossed!

Esther

lulu had those fatty cysts all her life. usually nothing to worry about. they can drain em. the ones they worried about can be removed relatively easily. once they get the capsule out, they're pretty much gone. always good to have em checked out tho

Lightning&Stomps

Lightning is covered in fatty lumps now. He has two on his chest that I call his breasts, they're so big. But at his age I can't put him through the surgery to get rid of some of them. And which ones? He's got so many! It seems like every day I find another one. But they're all benign, and IMO he's still the best looking dog ever.

Mikey T

It is always a potentially dangerious assumption, having loss a basset to mast cell cancer that was intially misdiagnosed i know first hand how dangerious.

Canine Mast Cell Tumors

Mikey T

This characteristic is usual a cyst that is commonly called a sebacious cyst but that is actual a chacateriszation of the actual problem actual sebacious cysts are rare the cysts that is mischaracterized this way Epidermal inclusion cysts (infundibular cysts) /Folicular cysts . They contain thich gooey material Sometimes when a needle asperation is done the vet will such all the material out but it usually reapears. Thes cyst occasional rupture when this hahppen it is often best to have them removed because even though they ruptured they often reform once the skin heel to rupture over again and again etc. The material inside the cyst is irratating the skin so it can slow the healing process and is also why one should not attep to pup/rupture the cyst. Most of the time however the risk of surger is far greater than the risk the cyst poses so nothing is done.

There is some though that it is often again to acne in people and for dogs with lots of cyst and recurring cysts retiniod or accutane are sometimes used with varying degrees of success.

I don't now if the following is scary or makes one feel better
Multiple (more than two thousand) epidermal inclusion cysts in a dog

Princess Buttercup

You guys are all so smart! The vet thinks they are benign fluid filled subcutaneous cysts. He did a fine needle aspiration found fluid with a few RBCs. Just to be on the safe side we are going to have them removed & sent for histopathology during her teeth cleaning later this month. BTW my little sissy of a Princess (who has been known to whine, cry & polish her daytime Emmy during vaccines) didn't even flinch when they dug that needle in repeatedly. She was such a good girl!! http://emob274.photobucket.com/album...IMG_1079-1.jpg

MollyMcFrecklesMom

That's good news. And what a good girl you are, Princess Buttercup!