We perform many types of soft tissue surgeries at our hospital. Soft tissue surgeries are those that are not associated with bone. These surgeries can provide many benefits to pets.
Probably the most common soft tissue surgery performed on pets is to remove lumps. Most of these masses, once removed and tested, are found to be benign (nonharmful); however, occasionally they are more serious. Early removal and accurate diagnosis of a mass are necessary to improve the outcome in your pet if the mass is cancerous.
Here at Aurora Hills Animal Hospital, our doctors can also perform several surgeries in the abdomen. We can remove stones from the bladder. We can do surgery of the stomach and intestines which usually means that a naughty pet has eaten something that has become stuck! We can perform a prophylactic gastropexy which is a procedure recommended in some large breed dogs to secure the stomach to the body wall. We have even removed the spleens of dogs who are found to have tumors within their spleens.
