Primary pigmented intraocular tumors in animals.

Intraocular melanomas, among the most com mon eye tumors in man, have seldom been reported in animals. This is particularly surprising in regard to the dog, a species that usually lives well into the "tumor age" and is affected by diverse neoplasms. In his "Pathology of Tumours" (1953) Willis (48) stated : ' 'I have not read of an intraocular melano ma in an animal." While reported cases are not as