Prevalence of osseous fragments in distal and proximal interphalangeal, metacarpo- and metatarsophalangeal and tarsocrural joints of hanoverian warmblood horses

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 388-394

  Stock, K F ^a   Hamann, H ^a   Distl, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INJURY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; TARSAL JOINT;

ANIMALS; CARPUS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; PREVALENCE; TARSAL JOINTS; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 27844492258     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0442.2005.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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