Accuracy of increased large-intestine wall thickness during ultrasonography for diagnosing large-colon torsion in 42 horses

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 220-224

  Pease, Anthony P ^a   Scrivani, Peter V ^a   Erb, Hollis N ^a   Cook, Vanessa L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Colic; Horse; Large colon torsion; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE WALL; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TORSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; EVALUATION; HORSE; LARGE INTESTINE; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMALS; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTESTINE, LARGE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TORSION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042722384     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2004.04038.x     Document Type: Article

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