Association between various physical factors and acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disk extrusion or protrusion in Dachshunds

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 370-375

  Levine, Jonathan M ^a   Levine, Gwendolyn J ^a   Kerwin, Sharon C ^a   Hettlich, Bianca F ^a   Fosgate, Geoffrey T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK EXTRUSION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33746594566     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.229.3.370     Document Type: Article

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