Reliability of using results of abdominal fluid analysis to determine treatment and predict lesion type and outcome for horses with colic: 218 cases (1991-1994)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 213, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1012-1015

  Freden, Gregory O ^a,c   Provost, Patricia J ^a   Rand, William M ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Charles River PharmServices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; COLIC; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; PROGNOSIS; RELATIVE DENSITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ASCITIC FLUID; CELL COUNT; COLIC; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PIGMENTATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

EID: 0032185666     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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