The lumbosacral junction in working German Shepherd dogs - Neurological and radiological evaluation

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-32

  Scharf, G ^a   Steffen, F ^a   Grunenfelder F ^a   Morgan, J P ^b   Fluckiger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PEDIGREE; RADIOGRAPHY; SWITZERLAND; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PEDIGREE; SPINAL STENOSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 2942696349     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0442.2004.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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