Risk Factors for Incisional Complications after Exploratory Celiotomy in Horses: Do Skin Staples Increase the Risk?

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 616-620

  Torfs, Sara ^a,b   Levet, Tamara ^a,b   Delesalle, Catherine ^a   Dewulf, Jeroen ^a,b   Vlaminck, Lieven ^a,b   Pille, Frederik ^a,b   Lefere, Laurence ^a,b   Martens, Ann ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL STAPLING; HORSE DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VETERINARY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE;

EID: 77955125235     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2009.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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