Permanent implantation of a reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene vascular graft for treatment of artificial defects of the teat cistern mucosa in cows

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-62

  Metzger, Lorenz ^a   Hirsbrunner, Gaby ^a   Waldvogel, Andreas ^a   Eicher, Richard ^a   Schällibaum, Melchior ^b   Steiner, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Federal Dairy Research Station   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; LACTATION; MILK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UDDER; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0032608234     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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