Absolute and relative cell counts for synovial fluid from clinically normal shoulder and stifle joints in cats

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 225, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1866-1870

  Pacchiana, Philip D ^a,b   Gilley, Robert S ^a,c   Wallace, Larry J ^a   Hayden, David W ^a   Feeney, Daniel A ^a   Jessen, Carl R ^a   Aird, Betsy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Fifth Ave Vet Specialists 24 H ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d River Valley Farms Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CAT; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SHOULDER; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL; SYNOVIUM;

ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; JOINTS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; STIFLE; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 10444231956     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.225.1866     Document Type: Article

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