Measurement of the cardiac silhouette in psittacines

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-79

  Straub, Jens ^a   Pees, Michael ^a   Maria E Krautwald Junghanns, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART SIZE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSITTACINE; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; STERNUM; THORAX;

AMAZONA; AMAZONA AMAZONICA; ANIMALIA; AVES; POICEPHALUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; PSITTACUS; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 0036663004     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.76     Document Type: Article

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