Scanning electron microscopic examination of third metacarpal/third metatarsal bone failure surfaces in Thoroughbred racehorses with condylar fracture

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-10

  Stepnik, Matthew W ^b   Radtke, Catherine L ^b   Scollay, Mary C ^b   Oshel, Philip E ^b   Albrecht, Ralph M ^b   Santschi, Elizabeth M ^b   Markel, Mark D ^b   Muir, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HORSE; INJURY; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; METATARSAL BONE; PATHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, CARTILAGE; HORSES; MALE; METACARPUS; METATARSAL BONES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 2142772752     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950x.2004.04007.x     Document Type: Article

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