Risk factors for and outcomes of noncatastrophic suspensory apparatus injury in Thoroughbred racehorses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 218, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1136-1144

  Hill, Ashley E ^a   Stover, Susan M ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Kane, Albert J ^b   Whitcomb, Mary Beth ^a   Emerson, Alex G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HORSE; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LIGAMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SHOE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS; HORSES; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RISK FACTORS; SHOES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035320884     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2001.218.1136     Document Type: Article

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