Atlantoaxial instability in a white-tailed deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 860-862

  Palmer, Mitchell V ^a  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Axis; Deer; Odocoileus virginianus; Subluxation; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLAS; AXIS; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEER; DISLOCATION; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; ATLAS; AXIS; DEER; DISLOCATIONS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 0038343564     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.4.860     Document Type: Article

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