Fistulation of the auditory tube diverticulum (guttural pouch) with a neodymium:Yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser for treatment of chronic empyema in two horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 405-407

  Hawkins, Jan F ^a   Frank, Nicholas ^a   Sojka, Janice E ^a   Levy, Michel ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PREDNISONE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EAR DISEASE; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEXAMETHASONE; EAR DISEASES; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPY; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PENICILLIN G, PROCAINE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PREDNISONE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0040754874     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2001.218.405     Document Type: Review

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