Use of tenoscopy for management of septic tenosynovitis caused by a penetrating porcupine quill in the synovial sheath surrounding the digital flexor tendons of a horse

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 210, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1768-1770

  Magee, Ashley A ^a,b   Ragle, Claude A ^a   Howlett, Mark R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROSCOPE; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FOREIGN BODY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INJURY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAVAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RODENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYNOVIUM; TENDON INJURY; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROSCOPES; ARTHROSCOPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FOREIGN BODIES; GENTAMICINS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IRRIGATION; MALE; PENICILLINS; RODENTIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TENDON INJURIES; TENOSYNOVITIS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0031570443     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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