Epiglottic augmentation for treatment of dorsal displacement of the soft palate in racehorses: 59 cases (1985-1994)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1022-1028

  Tulleners, Eric ^a   Stick, John A ^b   Leitch, Midge ^c   Trumble, Troy N ^b,d   Wilkerson, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Box 175   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENDOSCOPY; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; HORSE; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT PALATE; SPORT;

ANIMALS; ENDOSCOPY; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; HORSES; INCIDENCE; MALE; PALATE, SOFT; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPORTS;

EID: 0031572599     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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