from oedema to tumour just got to wait and see!

[italylyns]

Hi,

I posted on here a while back after my ID gelding experienced alot of swelling underneath. I was told to start that it was his lack of excercise as he had not been ridden for a few weeks when we had all that snow.
It started as a small oedema on his chest which then spread along his belly to his sheath which then caused alarm bells to ring!

It was a lengthy process to find out the eventual cause but after a biopsy, heart scan and numerous blood tests and tears later, my vets have said he has a tumour!
It is in his chest cavity and they cannot find out if it is malignant or benign without opening him up dispite doing a biopsy which did show clear but maybe did not get the correct tissue.

Phew, sorry long story!

I have now been advised to treat him as normal as he now (Typically) is looking great with only a small oedema on his chest, but to be aware that if it is malignant he will deteriorate.

Has anyone had/known of anything similar??
I tried to upload some pics but it seems i cant??!!

 

[Ninaliz]

Hello - Yes my gelding has something similar on his right side where his girth would sit just hehind his front leg. It is a lump that fits in my palm, appears to be attached to a rib or the cartilage inbetween. It is not external as I can pinch the skin directly over it. He feels no pain when it is touched. The vet advised we try a anti-inflammitry gel to see if it reduces the swelling but so far there is very little difference. Does this sound similar? I have seen another post like yours but am unable to find it again.

 

[popularfurball]

My pony had a very similar swelling due to allergic reaction. She had a course of steroids... Surely steroids would help to control tumour too? Hope you get some answers

 

[lhotse]

My mare started to suffer from ventral oedema, and had a big fluid filled lump between her front legs. She had suffered from ventral oedema the previous winter, along with lymphangitis, and blood tests just showed up a small bacteria infection. My vet said the ventral oedema was probably being caused by standing in, her previous lymphangitis and her age, 26. She was eating normally, happy in the field and generally her normal self until january this year, when she started to leave her hay, and generally became quiet. I had the vet back out, who put her on a course of danilon as she was finding it hard to chew, although her teeth were fine. She also said she had inflamation along her spine, a condition called spondylitis. The danilon had no effect, and she went downhill rapidly, and was PTS a week after the visit.
We did not have any further investigation done, as she was old, and I didn't want her messed about, she wasn't going to recover. She had enteric septicemia 3 years previously, and the vet believes that she had multicentric lymphosarcoma, which had been rapidly aggressive. Whether this was connected to her previous condition, we will never know. The timescale from the onset of the ventral oedema to the deteriation in her condition was about 2 months.
Sorry I can't give you more positive information, and I hope that your boy will continue to stay well for a long time yet. Not all tumours are as fast and aggressive as what my mare had.