Antemortem diagnosis of a distal axonopathy causing severe stringhalt in a horse

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-223

  Armengou, L ^a   Anor S ^a   Climent, F ^a   Shelton, G D ^a,b   Monreal, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYLBUTAZONE; SCAVENGER; SUXIBUZONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HINDLIMB; HORSE; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AXONS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HINDLIMB; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; MONONEUROPATHIES; PHENYLBUTAZONE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VITAMIN E;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 73349099074     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2009.0437.x     Document Type: Article

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