Implant Removal Rate from Infection after Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy in Dogs

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 705-711

  Gallagher, Alissa D ^a   Mertens, W Daniel ^a  

^a Carolina Veterinary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OSTEOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STIFLE;

ACTINOMYCES; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84864827121     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2012.00971.x     Document Type: Article

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