Results of bone scintigraphy in racing Standardbred horses: 64 cases (1992-1994)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 982-991

  Ehrlich, Paula J ^a,c   Dohoo, Ian R ^a   O'Callaghan, Michael W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BONE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMB; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SPORT;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPORTS;

EID: 0033208695     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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