I received the results of the biopsy eight days after the CT and rhinoscopy were conducted, directly from the veterinarian specialist at SVS.
He stated that the rhinoscopy was useful in ruling out a fungal infection. The CT alone had indicated a cancerous tumor.
In an earlier conversation, the specialist had candidly told me that the chance of the mass in my cat's nose being a fungal infection was less than 4%.
Doing the rhinoscopy was useful in determining which of the two cancers my cat had. But even then, because my cat lost so much blood and because the tissue collected in the two biopsies was necrotic (dead), they could not even do that! No, I was not going to let them take biopsies all over again...
Do your homework, as SVS does not provide more than the most minimal information about the necessity, practicality, or goal of its testing, which, from what I can tell, is the raison d'etre of SVS.
Rather like the doctors in the Pulitzer-Prize winning play, "Wit" by Margaret Edson. They like their testing. More than the animals.
