Sources and magnitude of variation of echocardiographic measurements in normal standardbred horses

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 505-512

  Buhl, Rikke ^a   Ersbøll, Annette Kjær ^a   Eriksen, Lis ^a   Koch, Jørgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Horse; Intraobserver variation; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HORSE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY ARTERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART; HORSES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 11244279083     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2004.04086.x     Document Type: Article

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