http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24118780

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Vet Ophthalmol. 2013 Oct 14. doi: 10.1111/vop.12107.
[Epub ahead of print]

Distichiasis in a ferret (Mustela putorius furo).

Verboven CA, Djajadiningrat-Laanen SC, Kitslaar WJ, Grinwis GC,
Schoemaker NJ, Boeve MH.

Source
Section of Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion
Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht,
The Netherlands.

Abstract
A 4-year-old intact male ferret was presented to the Ophthalmology
Service of the Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals
of Utrecht University with chronic blepharospasm, epiphora, and
conjunctivitis of the right eye. Examination of the eye revealed
mild conjunctivitis and three hairs protruding from the openings of
meibomian glands in the upper eyelid, providing the clinical diagnosis
of distichiasis. The distichia were removed by transconjunctival
unipolar electrocautery. Recovery was uneventful, but the original
signs recurred 10 weeks after surgery. Ophthalmic examination revealed
another distichia at a different location in the same eyelid and it was
removed by full-thickness wedge excision. Histopathological examination
failed to reveal the exact origin of the distichia. To our knowledge,
this is the first reported case of distichiasis in a ferret.

(c) 2013 American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.

KEYWORDS:
conjunctivitis, ectopic hair, eyelid, ferret

PMID: 24118780 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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