Racing Performance in Standardbred Trotters with Chronic Synovitis after Partial Arthroscopic Synovectomy in the Metacarpophalangeal, Metatarsophalangeal and Intercarpal (Midcarpal) Joints

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-95

  Roneus, B ^a   Andersson, A M ^a   Ekman, S ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

degenerative; histopathology; horses; joint disease; lameness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; JOINT; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ANIMALS; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JOINTS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RUNNING; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0030629051     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: 17510147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03548511     Document Type: Article

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