Uveal schwannoma in a brown‐eyed dog |
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| Authors: | Todd L. Marlo Elizabeth A. Giuliano Cecil P. Moore Gillian C. Shaw Leandro B. C. Teixeira |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA;2. School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin‐Madison, Madison, WI, USA |
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| Abstract: | An eleven‐year‐old, female spayed Boxer dog was diagnosed with a uveal schwannoma (formerly known as the spindle cell tumor of the blue‐eyed dog or SCTBED) despite having a uniformly brown iris. The patient presented to emergency for ocular discomfort, and the right globe was subsequently enucleated due to glaucoma and submitted for histopathology. Upon histopathologic evaluation, a uveal schwannoma was diagnosed and confirmed with immunohistochemical staining. Complete metastatic evaluation 1 and 6 months after initial presentation did not reveal evidence of metastasis, and the dog remains systemically healthy. This case represents a unique variant of uveal schwannoma and is relevant because although the vast majority of these tumors occur in blue‐eyed dogs, clinicians should not completely rule out this tumor as a differential based on the iris color. |
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| Keywords: | canine intraocular schwannoma spindle cell tumor of blue‐eyed dogs tumor uveal |
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