Acute Gastric Dilatation with Volvulus in a Northern fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 548-551

  Frasca Jr , S ^a   Dunn, J Lawrence ^b   Van Kruiningen, Herbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute gastric dilatation; Callorhinus ursinus; Gastric; Northern fur seal; Otariid; Pinniped; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; OTARIIDAE; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIET; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SEAL; SPLEEN; STOMACH; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH VOLVULUS; ZOO ANIMAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIET; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FUR SEALS; GASTRIC DILATATION; SPLEEN; STOMACH; STOMACH VOLVULUS;

EID: 0030180643     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-32.3.548     Document Type: Article

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