Tenoscopic examination and proximal annular ligament desmotomy for treatment of equine "complex" digital sheath tenosynovitis

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 429-435

  Fortier, Lisa A ^a,b   Nixon, Alan J ^a   Ducharme, Norm G ^a   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a   Yeager, Amy ^a  

^a Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGAMENT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LIGAMENTS; MALE; RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033228540     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.1999.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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