Evaluation of surgical treatment for signs of acute abdominal pain in draft horses: 72 Cases (1983-2002)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1546-1550

  Rothenbuhler, Ryan ^a   Hawkins, Jan F ^a   Adams, Stephen B ^a   Lescun, Timothy B ^a   Weil, Ann B ^a   Glickman, Lawrence T ^a   Fessler, John F ^a   Glickman, Nita G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DEATH; DIARRHEA; ENDOTOXEMIA; EVALUATION; EXPLORATORY CELIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORSE DISEASE; ILEUS; INTESTINE SURGERY; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 33646584154     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.10.1546     Document Type: Review

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