Diagnostic ultrasonography of the mature equine abdomen

Equine Veterinary Education

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 319-330

  Freeman, S L ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Exhall Lodge Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Horse; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER RUPTURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; HEMATOMA; HORSE; HYDATID CYST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE WALL; KIDNEY DISEASE; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PARACENTESIS; PERIRENAL ABSCESS; PERITONEAL FLUID; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN DISEASE; STOMACH; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH TUMOR; TRANSCUTANEOUS ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETER DISEASE; URETHRA DISEASE; UROLITHIASIS;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0346789009     PISSN: 09577734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-3292.2003.tb00257.x     Document Type: Article

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