Beanie: benign bump
Sabriena noticed some time ago a small bump on our dog Beanie’s left flank, that felt something like a hard pimple. We then noticed a week or so ago that it had grown a bit, so in to the vet this Tuesday to have them check it out.
Upon their advice, we opted to have an “aeration”, which is apparently the same thing as a biopsy but instead of cutting off a chunk, they take an empty syringe and use it to pull out several samples, put it on slides, and send that off to the lab. Our vet doesn’t have a lab internally (in a town of ~18,000 people this is no surprise) so it would be a few days.
The vet called on Friday morning, telling us that it doesn’t appear to be malignant - it’s most likely a subcutaneous follicular cyst, apparently fairly common in dogs. Completely fine to leave it for now, if it gets too large and/or annoying for her we can have it removed and it probably won’t come back, but there’s no reason to subject the dog to surgery right now.
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