misc dz

Question 1

Apocrine tumors typically occur where in ferrets? good or bad px?

Answer 1

Bad - invasive, metastatic, aggressive

head, neck, preputial/perivulvar areas - those caudal ones are the worst

Question 2

Subcutaneous soft tissue sarcomas in ferrets: good/bad?

Answer 2

sound bad, usually aren’t
subcutis muscle layer typical origin
wide excision often curative

Question 3

what tumor can look like a soft tissue sarcoma if IHC isn’t done?

Answer 3

PNST

Question 4

Hemangio/sarcoma in ferrets: where & how?

Answer 4

Skin & visceral

like a dog - skin not bad, visceral real bad

Question 5

ferret ear mites can go where else on the body?

Answer 5

perineum, eww

Question 6

Sarcoptes in ferrets can go what weird place?

Answer 6

“foot rot” - the pictures are horrible

Question 7

demodex in ferrets is usually going to happen to whom?

Answer 7

immunocompromised

Question 8

signs of demodex in a ferret?

Answer 8

alopecia, pruritus, comedones
skin discoloration on face or ventrum
Brown wax in the ear canal