My dog had one of these removed and sent for histology recently. I was told that it’s a benign tumour and nothing to worry about. She’s now got two more starting.
She’s a poodle so needs grooming, and I had the last one removed to prevent it getting in the way, but I can’t keep doing anaesthetics at her age.
Any experience of these ?

I presume the vet did an excisional biopsy to confirm the diagnosis.

Removal by surgery is the preferred treatment, there are drugs that can reduce the occurance, but they do have some not so nice contraindications. Isoretinoin or Acitretin are 2 & need to have quite careful monitoring.

Cryosurgery/cryotherapy can be also be an option depending on the size of these keratin filled tumours.

So can the cryotherapy be done without a GA ?

Would depend on the temperament of the dog, I had a cyst removed from one of my dogs paw using it, a very laid back boy with a bit of light sedation & local block.

It would be up to the vet involved

Very common in my breed, (in fact [he no1 breed to get them), generally refered to as sebaceous cysts.

Have had minimal excission technique used to avoid shaving.

Otherwise leave alone, and wait for them to come to a head, and when burst empty contents clean until they heal.

I wondered if they were the same .my gsd used to get them and as u say generally left to come to a head and burst then clean up .just keep an out for amy infection .we never had a problem.with that though

Regarding cryotherapy if its similar to how theu freeze out verrucas which in my experience doesn't usually include local anesthetic it is very painful .
Even after oys do e u cam suffer a lot of discomfort for some time afterwards.
I cant imagine doing it on a dog if it's the same

https://www.aesculight.com/case-studies/laser-excision-keratoacanthomas/

No, this is a growth that she had removed. She’s now got two smaller ones, they resemble a tiny ‘finger’. If they get too long they might get in the way of grooming.
Funnily enough she’s always had sebaceous cysts, is it connected ?

My dog had no problem because he was a chilled out dog. Never had a verruca so have no idea what the surgery is like, he couldn't have traditional surgical removal, because the site could not be closed by sutures

Yes, you get little hornlike pillar ones, and deep seated ones, contents like rice/cottage cheese) little hard pea type.

I think people are getting confused between the more common sebaceous gland tumours that form at the base of hair follicles & contain sebum from the sebaceous gland &  infundibular keratinizing acanthoma (IKA)which is a rare epithelial benign keratin-containing neoplasm of hair follicles that occur higher on the hair follicle.

These 2 are unrelated & dissimilar.

It is the latter that are most common in my breed, the Norwegian Elkhound, and are simply (erronously) refered to as sebaceous cysts.

We wish that they were indeed rarer