Outcome of and complications associated with prophylactic percutaneous laser disk ablation in dogs with thoracolumbar disk disease: 277 Cases (1992-2001)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1733-1739

  Bartels, Kenneth E ^a   Higbee, Russell G ^a   Bahr, Robert J ^a   Galloway, David S ^a   Healey, Tiffany S ^a   Arnold, Christopher ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DOG; FEMALE; HOLMIUM LASER; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPHYLAXIS; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LASER SURGERY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037639149     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.1733     Document Type: Article

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