Repair of oronasal fistulae using auricular cartilage grafts in five cats

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-169

  Cox, Celia L ^b   Hunt, Geraldine B ^a   Cadier, Michael M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; EAR CARTILAGE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; EAR CARTILAGES; FEMALE; MALE; NOSE DISEASES; ORAL FISTULA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; FISTULA;

EID: 33847289624     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2007.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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