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ggturner

by ggturner on 24 March 2018 - 16:03

An imageAn imageWe took our 8 month old gsd to vet yesterday because in the past two weeks he developed a growth on top of his muzzle. We thought it was a small sore at first but this week it grew. Vet thinks it is a benign cyst. Having it removed next week. Has anyone here seen anything similar on a dog?


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 24 March 2018 - 19:03

The old girl I have now is prone to all sorts of cysts and warts. I've always thought it more a problem of older dogs; but there was one large cyst on the back of one of the dogs @ work, some 10 years ago, we had it taken off by the Vet to make sure it was benign. We'd thought it a fat lipoma initially. She was about seven then, I think, (that's not a puppy either) - and lived a good few more years afterwards and was fine. Prior to that we had the odd few small cysts on the legs of younger dogs, because running through the woods tended to result in skin damage and that sometimes leads to (often infected) cysts, but these all tended to disappear again after a week or two's saline bathing, and sometimes topical ointment application. No lasting effects.

This one might be a sebaceous cyst; where the sebum naturally in the skin clogs behind a hair follicle.

'Teenage' puppies' skins can be a bit overactive (in the same way humans get acne).


by JonRob on 24 March 2018 - 20:03


>> Having it removed next week. Has anyone here
>> seen anything similar on a dog?

Yes, and it was an extremely malignant mast cell tumor that would have killed the dog if we hadn't had it removed in a hurry. The dog was only a year old.

Don't let anyone change your mind about having that sucker removed ASAP.

Make sure the vet sends everything he cuts out to a pathologist to make sure the margins are clean (no cancer at the edges of the tissue he took out). If the margins are not clean, he will have to take out more skin until they are.

This is nothing to screw around with. I hope it's benign but only a pathologist can tell you what it is.

by hexe on 25 March 2018 - 04:03

That doesn't look like a run-of-the-mill sebaceous cyst to me. I co-sign everything JonRob wrote above. Having the mass sent out for pathology may sound pricey, but for a dog this young to pop something like this, the chances of it being "Not Good Thing" are higher than it would be in an adult dog.

Even if it was only a benign cyst, better you get it dealt with now, because with the location it's going to be difficult enough to take enough tissue to get clean margins and still be able to close the incision...the larger it grows, the more likely the dog would end up needing a skin graft.


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 25 March 2018 - 05:03

Just to clarify, OP, I was not trying to persuade you to cancel the operation ! If your vet thinks it needs to come off, then that is what ought to be done.

I was being guided by your vet's reported opinion that it is likely benign - and indeed the odds are that it is. It does not seem to be growing excessively quickly; but of course Hexe is quite correct, there isn't a lot of spare skin on the nose.

But yes, [while even sebaceous cysts can be malignant, or recurrent] mast cell tumours can be nasty and increasingly one hears of them occuring in GSDs, unfortunately. Let's hope that is not the case with your dog; and that even if it is, the pup recovers quickly and completely.

There are Dr Becker videos available on both sorts of lump, if you want to do some YouTubeing.


ggturner

by ggturner on 25 March 2018 - 11:03

Thanks for the responses. I have researched some but that isn't always a good idea since I tend to think the worst. The vet thinks it is a benign cyst common to puppies (I don't know if he gave a name for the type of cyst since my husband took him to the vet and could not recall a name for it). The vet didn't insist that it should be removed...he said we could keep an eye on it, but we want it removed. It will be removed tomorrow and will be checked to make sure that it isn't cancer.

Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 25 March 2018 - 13:03

gg, did he do a needle aspiration on it when you first took him to the vet ?

ggturner

by ggturner on 26 March 2018 - 21:03

Hundmutter....vet did not do aspiration since we were having it removed regardless.


ggturner

by ggturner on 26 March 2018 - 21:03

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This boy is happy to be home!  Surgery went well.  Now we will have to wait on the lab results.  Post op checkup in two weeks.


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 26 March 2018 - 22:03

Awww !

I asked about the needle aspiration because I'd wondered if your vet had used that to decide whether he should recommend the removal.

Fingers crossed it proves to have been benign.





 


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