Our differential diagnoses for exophthalmia in a rabbit included retrobulbar mass (cheek teeth root abscess, lymphoma), glaucoma (primary or secondary) and thymoma. We considered treating the ...

In retrospect, we may have seen only a reverse neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio, due to the retrobulbar abscess, on hematology testing 1. Leukocytosis is unusual in the rabbit, even with infection 1.