Osteogenic intraocular melanoma in an alpaca (Vicugna pacos)

Abstract

A 10-year-old, female, pregnant alpaca (Vicugna pacos) presented with a discolored, swollen right eye. The eye did not respond to treatment and was enucleated. Sectioning of the fixed eye revealed an ocular mass replacing the aqueous and vitreous humors, with multiple regions of bone formation. Histopathological, immunohistochemical, and transmission electron microscopy confirmed the tumor was an intraocular melanoma with bone formation. Osteogenic melanoma is a rare variant of melanoma not reported in the eye before.