11/02/2026
MVS at HVC every Tuesday! 💛🐝🧡
Mobile Veterinary Surgery at Hampstead Veterinary Center
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We're at Hampstead Veterinary Hospital on Tuesdays. We see pets from other hospitals on these days, and we perform orthopedic and soft tissue surgery procedures.
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is what we do most often. 💛🦿❤️
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On this day, we started with and then did a lateral suture, which is another option for CCL injuries in older, smaller, and less active dogs.
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Our third surgery was a large mass removal. Mass removal surgery can vary between straightforward or very complex, depending on the type of mass and need for margins, meaning a larger surgery site in order to remove a tumor completely.
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Next, we did abdominal surgery to remove ovarian tissue that had been inadvertently left behind when this pet was spayed. It's easy to forgot how significant a spay surgery is--it's abdominal surgery to remove an entire functional organ, and so it's never "just a spay."
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And finally, we ended with a bilateral a**l sacculectomy. This means removing both a**l sacs, which are small glands that are located right next to the a**s. 🙈
A**l sacs contain a stinky liquid that should squeeze out at appropriate times, but their function is not necessary: if a**l sacs are causing trouble, they can be removed.
*causing trouble might include scooting, needing to be expressed frequently, leaking or being stinky 🙊💨, being difficult to express, or developing infections, abscesses, or draining tracts (ouch!).
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Please email or call for information about surgery with MVS at HVC. [email protected] 301.424.1734 💛🐾❤️
