Combination of medical and surgical therapy for pleuropneumonia in a horse

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 499-501

  Dechant, Julie ^a,b  

^a Okotoks Animal Clinic   (Canada)

^b Young Crawford Veterinary Clinic   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENT; CEFTIOFUR; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLONIXIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ENROFLOXACIN; FLUNIXIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LAVAGE; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PLEURA; PNEUMONIA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLONIXIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IRRIGATION; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; PLEURA; PLEUROPNEUMONIA; QUINOLONES; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACOSTOMY; TRIMETHOPRIM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031203388     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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