Vacuum disk and facet phenomenon in a dog with cauda equina syndrome

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 217, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 862-864

  Schwarz, Tobias ^a   Owen, Martin R ^a   Long, Sam ^a   Sullivan, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POLYRADICULOPATHY; PREDNISOLONE; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0041036074     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2000.217.862     Document Type: Article

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