Results indicated that ocular and adnexal SCCs treated with adjuvant radiation therapy had a significantly lower recurrence rate, compared with SCCs treated without adjuvant radiation therapy, independent of anatomic location.

Compared with baseline values and values obtained from dogs in the SAL group, ketamine administered at a dose of 5 mg/kg, IV, caused a significant and clinically important increase in IOP in dogs in which premedication was not administered. Ketamine should not be used in dogs with corneal trauma or glaucoma or in those undergoing intraocular surgery.

THE first neoplasm documented in ferrets (Mustela putorius furo), a cutaneous carcinoma, was reported in 1950 (Symmers and Thomson 1950). Neoplasia was initially reported rarely in ferrets (Li and Fox 1998), but is currently recognised as a common condition, particularly in the USA (Williams and Weiss 2003). In a study of 547 ferret neoplasms submitted to the Veterinary Medical Data Base at Purdue University, neoplasia related to the eye and adnexa represented less than 1 per cent of all samples (Li and others 1998). There is little published information on the histological morphology, prognosis or life expectancy of ferrets with neoplasia of the eye, adnexa or orbit. This short communication describes the diagnosis and successful treatment of a retrobulbar adenocarcinoma in a ferret with exeneration, surgical reduction and palliative Cobalt-60 radiation therapy. A four-year-old, neutered male domestic ferret presented to the