Computed tomography of the lung of healthy snakes of the species python regius, boa constrictor, python reticulatus, morelia viridis, epicrates cenchria, and morelia spilota

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 487-491

  Pees, Michael ^a   Kiefer, Ingmar ^a   Thielebein, Jens ^b   Oechtering, Gerhard ^c   Krautwald Junghanns, Maria Elisabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Zoo Halle   (Germany)

^c Veterinary Teaching Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boa; Computed tomography; Densitometry; Lung; Python; Snake

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LUNG; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; SNAKE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANIMALS; BOIDAE; LUNG; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

BOA CONSTRICTOR; BOIDAE; EPICRATES CENCHRIA; MORELIA SPILOTA; MORELIA VIRIDIS; PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHON RETICULATUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 69249114669     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: 17408261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2009.01569.x     Document Type: Article

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