Many diseases could occur in your dog, such as hair follicle tumor dog. By having some pets, especially dogs, you should be more responsible as a person because you need to always be aware of their health. The causes of this tumor are usually unknown, but most of them are genetic link since the scientists found there might be a correlation between the disease and the particular structures of follicles on specific breeds, such as Irish Setters, Standard Poodles, Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, English Springer Spaniels, Cocker Spaniels, Basset Hounds, and Miniature Schnauzers.
This disease is usually growing on the dog’s skin hair follicles, which is usually divided into two kinds: pilomatrixoma and trichoepithelioma. However, there are actually a lot of types of it, such as:
Pilomatrixoma
The first type, pilomatrixoma, is on the cells that are responsible for growing the hair follicles on dogs. They are small and usually grow on the hair matrix. Moreover, Pilomatricomas often occur in middle-aged dogs.
Infundibular Keratinizing Acanthoma
These types of tumors are often found on the trunk or the backside of a dog’s neck. They are more commonly found in males rather than in females. They can be found multiple or solitary.
Trichoblastoma
Different to the previous types, trichoblastoma is commonly found solitary and occurs at the ears, head, or neck. Trichoblastomas are developed at the root cells of hair follicle.
Trichoepithelioma
The fourth type, trichoepitheliomas, is growing on the cystic hair follicles. They are not common issues, but once they occur, they can grow on a cat’s limbs, flank, back, tail, or shoulders.
Although the hair follicle tumor dog is usually benign and easy to be solved, you can’t ignore this issue and bring your dogs to the nearest veterinarian to get the right treatment. Sometimes, the further medical check on your dogs would be resulted different (malignant cases) and needed to be handled as soon as you can.
First, the veterinarian will conduct some physical exams on your pets based on your explanation about the dogs, starting from medical history to the symptoms of disease. Then, your dog will be taken into the next level of physical exams, such as urinalysis, complete blood exams, blood profile, until electrolyte panel.
The tumor sample would be the last thing to be checked to define the kind of tumor, and the dangerous level of it to conduct hair follicle tumor removal step. Whatever the case is and whenever you see the symptoms of hair follicle tumor dog, you should get the proper treatment immediately.
