Reliability of a quantitative rating scale for assessment of horses with distal tarsal osteoarthritis

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 204-211

  Labens, Raphael ^a,b   Innocent, Giles T ^a   Voûte, Lance C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delphi; Distal tarsal joints; Osteoarthritis; Radiographic rating scale

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TARSAL JOINT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TARSAL JOINTS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34247392010     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: 17408261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2007.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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