Survey of diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons regarding postoperative intraabdominal adhesion formation in horses undergoing abdominal surgery

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1573-1576

  Southwood, Louise L ^a   Baxter, Gary M ^a   Hutchison, Jennifer M ^a   Shuster, Rachel ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; KETOPROFEN; METRONIDAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PHENYLBUTAZONE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORSE; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABDOMEN; ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; CAUSALITY; DATA COLLECTION; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTESTINAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SOCIETIES; SURGERY, VETERINARY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0031445620     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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