Chronic laminitis: Current treatment strategies

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 393-416

  Parks, Andrew ^a   O'Grady, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Northern Virginia Equine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PERGOLIDE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL CARE; CALLUS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINGER NAIL; FOOT; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; FOOT SOLE; FRACTURE; GAIT; HEEL; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE; JOINT CAPSULE; LAMINITIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHALANX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SHOE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENOTOMY; TOE; TOE JOINT; WEIGHT BEARING; X RAY FILM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HORSE DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFLAMMATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242797391     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0739(03)00019-1     Document Type: Review

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