Race performance after laryngoplasty and ventriculocordectomy in national hunt racehorses

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 941-945

  Barakzai, Safia Z ^a,b   Boden, Lisa A ^a,b   Dixon, Padraic M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUNNING; UNITED KINGDOM; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HORSES; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUNNING; VOCAL CORDS;

ANIMALIA; CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 71949113414     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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