Risk factors, prognostic indicators, and outcome of pyothorax in cats: 80 cases (1986-1999)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 819-824

  Waddell, Lori S ^a   Brady, Colleen A ^a   Drobatz, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERSALIVATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SIALORRHEA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037106064     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.221.819     Document Type: Article

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