Factors associated with outcome following treatment of horses with septic tenosynovitis: 51 Cases (1986-2003)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 230, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1195-1200

  Wereszka, Marta M ^a   White II, Nathaniel A ^a   Furr, Martin O ^a  

^a MARION DUPONT SCOTT EQUINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TENOSYNOVITIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 34249093262     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.230.8.1195     Document Type: Article

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