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Beatrisa-Poodle with the Head Tumor
Beatrisa is an seven year old poodle owned by our long-standing client Apart from Beatrisa, we are regularly seeing other poodles owned by the same owner. Poodles are prone to teeth tartar accumulation, so at least once a year, this owner brings his dogs on a regular dental treatment. Unfortunately for Beatrisa, this year apart from tartar accumulation on her teeth she had one serious health problem: a large mass on her head. At the beginning, when the mass appeared, it didn't cause any problems or discomfort to Beatrisa. By the time it grown much bigger and much closer to the eye. Beatrisa started to scratch the mass and the wounds appeared on it's surface.
After detailed clinical examination, together with the owner we decided to remove the mass surgically straight away.
As seen on pictures, the mass affected quite a big surface of the animal's head. After the mass was removed, large skin defect was repaired bymeans of reconstructive surgical techniques.
After the surgery, dental cleaning was performed, Beatrisa quickly recovered from anaesthesia and she was taken back home. We discussed all the necessary treatment in the postoperative period with the owner.
The only thing which we were all left to wait for were the histopathology results of the removed mass.We were worried about the histopatholgical findings because such a fast growing mass may indicate an aggressive tumor.
When Beatrisa was brought back to our surgery for stitches removal we had good news: histopatology results showed that the tumor was only locally invasive. That means it probably would not spread to other body parts or metastasis.
We were all relieved by those results and we wished the owner to see him with his pets next year for vaccination and the dental treatment only.
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The mass before Picture
 and after the surgical preparation
 The final appearance of the surgical wound
 The surgical wound two weeks postoperatively
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