Incidence of spinal compressive lesions in chondrodystrophic dogs with abnormal recovery after hemilaminectomy for treatment of thoracolumbar disc disease: A prospective magnetic resonance imaging study

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-172

  Forterre, Franck ^a   Gorgas, Daniela ^a   Dickomeit, Mark ^a   Jaggy, Andre ^a   Lang, Johann ^a   Spreng, David ^a  

^a VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77949536342     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2009.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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