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Microphthalmia in cats

Authors: Dunnet RL
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp 38-39, Mar 1981
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Cat, Companion animal
Subject Terms: Congenital disease, Eye/opthalmology, Clinical examination
Article class: Correspondence

Abstract: The congenital abnormality of microphthalmia has been variously described as rare in cats and not rare in kittens. Having recently come across this condition for the first time in 14 years of small animal practice, I am interested to discover how prevalent it is in New Zealand. In the case in question the abnormality occurred in two kittens in the same litter. The queen is a blue-cream Persian aged 3 years, and her two previous litters were normal…

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