Equine castration: Review of anatomy, approaches, techniques and complications in normal, cryptorchid and monorchid horses

Australian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 428-434

  Searle, D ^a   Dart, A J ^a   Dart, C M ^a   Hodgson, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Castration; Cryptorchid; Equine; Horse; Monorchid

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYPTORCHISM; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; TESTIS;

EID: 0033158510     PISSN: 00050423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1999.tb12083.x     Document Type: Article

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