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  • GinnyCG

    Maybe I'm jumping the gun, since I have not gotten the results back yet, but my 10yr old boy had what we thought was a fatty cyst (2 different vets determined this). He got into a fight with my 8yr old female & this area got infected. Vet proceeded to drain the abcess & removed some of the cyst which he sent to pathology since it was various dark colors of pink/flesh. I saw it in the specimen bottle. He says fatty cysts are usually white so he thinks now it may have been a tumor. He was not able to remove all of it. Does anyone have any experience with dark colored cysts thought to be fatty cysts??

    Poor baby has a 4" incision with drain but he's getting a lot of love from me!

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