Metastatic melanoma in horses

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 452-456

  MacGillivray, Katherine Cole ^a   Sweeney, Raymond W ^a,b   Del Piero, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Mid Atlantic Equine Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermal melanocytosis; Horse; Neoplasia; Perineum; Tumor

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; CIMETIDINE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CANCER VACCINES; CIMETIDINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVALENCE; RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0036636778     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2002.tb01264.x     Document Type: Article

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