Cancer and Wounds

Spot Jenkinshad a near rupture of the triceps tendon. There was a substantial overlying wound.

Michaal was unlucky enough to have amast cell turmour on the end of his prepuce.

Cassie presented to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals with a long-standing mast cell tumour that had grown under her Achilles tendon. It was getting knocked and inflamed.

Alfie, an 11 year old dog, had a locally invasive but non-malignant mass on the front of his upper jaw called and ameloblastic fibroma. This was removed as a block of tissue and the nose was spared.

A female Staffie Bull Terrier was admitted to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals for the removal of a mass from the caudal thigh. This was likely to be a soft tissue sarcoma from fine needle aspirates done by the referring vet, and the owner requested excision on that basis without further confirmatory biopsy.

On in May 2018 Romeo, a 7-year-old Chihuahua, presented to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals for left maxillectomy (radical removal of part of the upper jaw) for a plasmacytoma.

Bella, a 10-year-old Staffie, had a large soft tissue sarcoma over her lateral left elbow she had been referred to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals by a local vet. Excision with margins wasn’t feasible. Amputating her leg was a huge step to take for a mass that was unlikely to ever spread beyond the leg.

A 3-year-old Bulldog presented to us in West Midlands Veterinary Referrals for attention to her breed-related “screw tail”.  The deep skin folds associated with the cork-screw tail led to festering skin infections.

A 7-year-old female Labrador presented to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals with a large soft tissue mass, a leiomyosarcoma (a malignant tumour of smooth muscle cells), in the perineum (the area between the vagina and the anus).

A 45 kg, 10-year-old crossbred dog presented to us at West Midlands Veterinary Referrals for CT chest/neck and surgical removal of a well-defined mass between the left carotid artery and the trachea. Our colleague Mayra had recently scanned him.