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Old October 6th, 2011, 09:39 AM
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Robyn, we had a lump removed from Cass shortly after she arrived here. The aspiration showed very suspicious cells and the vet suspected a mast cell tumor so we had it taken out. They took large margins, too, to make sure they got it all. Poor girl even had a drain for a while.

Path report came back as a vaccination reaction lump We didn't cotton onto it right away cuz the lump didn't show up for two weeks past the vaccination... *sigh*

Anyway, the point of the story is that needle aspirations are not always accurate, and vets are fooled now and then. I'm hoping that's the case with Thorin.
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