Treatment of traumatically induced synovial sepsis in horses with gentamicin-impregnated collagen sponges

Veterinary Record

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 184-188

  Summerhays, G E S ^a  

^a LIPHOOK EQUINE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTIOFUR; COLLAGEN IMPLANT; COLLATAMP G; COTRIMAZINE; DUPHAPEN; DUPHATRIUM; ENROFLOXACIN; FLUNIXIN; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; METROREX; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG IMPLANTATION; HORSE DISEASE; SPONGE; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0034641608     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.147.7.184     Document Type: Article

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