Evaluation of the success of medical management for presumptive thoracolumbar intervertebral disk herniation in dogs

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 482-491

  Levine, Jonathan M ^a   Levine, Gwendolyn J ^b   Johnson, Scott I ^b   Kerwin, Sharon C ^b   Hettlich, Bianca F ^b   Fosgate, Geoffrey T ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Emergency Animal Hospital of NW Austin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 34547290390     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2007.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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