Excision as treatment of dermal melanomatosis in horses: 11 Cases (1994-2000)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-96

  Rowe, Emma L ^a   Sullins, Kenneth E ^a  

^a MARION DUPONT SCOTT EQUINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; HORSE; MELANOMATOSIS; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 3042720198     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.225.94     Document Type: Article

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