Use of magnetic resonance imaging to identify suspensory desmitis and adhesions between exostoses of the second metacarpal bone and the suspensory ligament in four horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 224, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1815-1820+1789

  Zubrod, Chad J ^a   Schneider, Robert K ^a   Tucker, Russell L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXOSTOSIS; FEMALE; HORSE; KNEE LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT DISEASE; METACARPAL BONE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SUSPENSORY DESMITIS; SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; EXOSTOSES; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFLAMMATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METACARPUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 2542605391     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.224.1815     Document Type: Article

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