Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Richard Fox — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:05:15 GMT

IIRC a full strip has not been shown to give a better prognosis that regional excision - Also Cytology is pretty useless IME :)

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Busybee — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:06:53 GMT

Booked in next week for spay and advised owner to monitor mammary tissue for any heat, pain or hard swellings in the mean time. Thanks all!

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:35:17 GMT

This strikes me as a client relations problem, not a medical one.

Spay her. Point out to the owner (but diplomatically) that to do a full mammary strip () if there's the slightest chance there could be anything neoplastic is as sensible as doing a full mammary strip at six months old just to be sure she never gets mammary neoplasia.

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Busybee — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:14:46 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"] do a surgical biopsy[/quote]

There's no one obvious mass though, just generally enlarged tissue so I'd be hard pressed to identify a good site for a biopsy

[quote user="Julian Earl"] No, mammary masses are a case where full excision is indicated regardless of any FNA results.[/quote]

I agree completely, but this isn't a mass as such, as said above, just general tissue enlargement (think bitch in season). Normally any mammary MASSES get cut off straight away!

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Julian Earl — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:22:37 GMT

Doing a full mammary strip or not is one question but FNAs are largely useless for mammary tumours. Think how often you get a mixed-type tumour from proper histology, and think how often there may be inflammation as well. No, mammary masses are a case where full excision is indicated regardless of any FNA results.

Re: Canine mammary hypertrophy?

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:09:28 GMT

I'd spay now and do a surgical biopsy as opposed to FNA at the same time

Wynne