However, lumps or lesions due to tongue cancer are not always painful. Other symptoms of tongue cancer can include swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. This is called lymphedema and may be a sign that the tongue cancer has spread beyond the tongues into the deeper tissues of the mouth and neck.
If your dog needs a plasma transfusion or any other type of blood transfusion, your vet will match your dog's blood type to the donor dog's blood type. He'll also cross match the antibodies in your dog's blood to those in the donor dog's blood, to make sure your dog doesn't suffer an allergic reaction.
1 Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (IMT) is a serious disease in which a dogâs body attacks its own blood platelets. 2  Platelets are necessary for blood clotting and when a dogâs blood platelet count is low, it can lead to bruising, bleeding, anemia and other serious complications.