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Download and print these skin maps at home or in your clinic to keep track of lumps and bumps. Use this with your calipers to note where the mass is and the approximate size.
No one can look at a mass or feel a mass and know what it is. Remember, my See Something, Do Something/Why Wait? Aspirate. ® guidelines.
Most skin and subcutaneous masses can be cured with surgery alone if we find them when they are small. So let's identify them early and find out what they are with an aspirate before you remove them with surgery, so the first surgery is the only surgery your pet or patient needs!
Download and print these skin maps at home or in your clinic to keep track of lumps and bumps. Use this with your calipers to note where the mass is and the approximate size.
No one can look at a mass or feel a mass and know what it is. Remember, my See Something, Do Something/Why Wait? Aspirate. ® guidelines.
- See Something: If the mass is the size of a pea (1 cm) or larger and present for one month or longer.
- Do Something: go to the veterinarian for an aspirate (#WhyWaitAspirate!).
Most skin and subcutaneous masses can be cured with surgery alone if we find them when they are small. So let's identify them early and find out what they are with an aspirate before you remove them with surgery, so the first surgery is the only surgery your pet or patient needs!