Recurrent bilateral exophthalmos associated with metastatic thymic carcinoma in a pet rabbit

Journal of Small Animal Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 393-397

  Wagner, F ^a   Beinecke, A ^a   Fehr, M ^a   Brunkhorst, N ^a   Mischke, R ^a   Gruber, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EXOPHTHALMOS; FATALITY; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; RECURRENT DISEASE; THYMOMA;

ANIMALS; EXOPHTHALMOS; FATAL OUTCOME; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RABBITS; RECURRENCE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 23944522282     PISSN: 00224510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2005.tb00336.x     Document Type: Article

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