Preputial melanoma with systemic metastasis in a pony gelding and disseminated metastatic melanoma in a Thoroughbred gelding

Equine Veterinary Education

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 312-315

  Garvican, E R ^a,b   Elce, Y A ^a   Woolard, K ^a   Blikslager, A T ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horse; Melanoma; Metastasis; Penis; Tumour

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34447558345     PISSN: 09577734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/095777307X207646     Document Type: Article

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