Racing performance after combined prosthetic laryngoplasty and ipsilateral ventriculocordectomy or partial arytenoidectomy: 135 Thoroughbred racehorses competing at less than 2400 m (1997-2007)

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-75

  Witte, T H ^a   Mohammed, H O ^a   Radcliffe, C H ^a   Hackett, R P ^a   Ducharme, N G ^a  

^a Medical Director of Equine and Farm Animal Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Arytenoidectomy; Horse; Laryngoplasty; Racing performance

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPORT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; ARYTENOID CARTILAGE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 58549087738     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516408X343163     Document Type: Article

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