Computed tomographic documentation of a comminuted fourth carpal bone fracture associated with carpal instability treated by partial carpal arthrodesis in an Arabian filly

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 618-625

  Waselau, Martin ^a   Bertone, Alicia L ^a   Green, Eric M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CARPAL BONE; CASE REPORT; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HORSE; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ARTHRODESIS; CARPAL BONES; CARPUS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HORSES; JOINT INSTABILITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33749520961     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2006.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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