[vetvetdoug]

This is where a good medical education is necessary. I found organs misplaced several times while doing routine surgeries. I also found organs that were suffering atresia, foreign bodies that had migrated into the abdomen, multiple sets of ovaries and uteri in dogs, extra kidneys and organs not where they were supposed to be. Surgery is not something rushed unless the patient is dying on the table.

[Texas Songwriter]

Yes. And if there is centilla of doubt one can always get a biopsy prior to excising a mass. As you know most cancers “feel” differently than a smooth organ surface. If there is a cyst or benign tumor that too can be ascertained by an intraoperative biopsy. It sounds like the one positive biopsy was the wallet biopsy.