Ventriculocordectomy as the sole treatment for recurrent laryngeal neuropathy: Long-term results from ninety-two horses

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 653-657

  Taylor, Sarah E ^a   Barakzai, Safia Z ^a   Dixon, Padraic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOCAL CORDS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33749537838     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2006.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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