Suspected spinal epidural empyema and associated vertebral osteomyelitis (physitis)in a dog

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 216-221

  Jerram, Richard M ^a   Dewey, Curtis W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empyema; Feverhemilaminectomy; Myelography; Osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006469861     PISSN: 14793261     EISSN: 14764431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-4431.1998.tb00127.x     Document Type: Article

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