Effect of hemi-circumferential periosteal transection and elevation in foals with experimentally induced angular limb deformities

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 536-540

  Read, Emma K ^a   Read, Matt R ^a,b   Townsend, Hugh G ^a   Clark, Christopher R ^a   Pharr, John W ^a   Wilson, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VALGUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; FORELIMB; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE; LIMB; LIMB MALFORMATION; NEWBORN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOSTEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARPUS, ANIMAL; EXTREMITIES; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERIOSTEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037103853     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.536     Document Type: Article

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