Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Torres de la Riva, Gretel ^a   Hart, Benjamin L ^a   Farver, Thomas B ^a   Oberbauer, Anita M ^a   Messam, Locksley L McV ^b   Willits, Neil ^a   Hart, Lynette A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

AGE; ANGIOSARCOMA; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BREED; DEVELOPMENT; DOG; FEMALE; GENDER; GROWTH; HIP DYSPLASIA; INCIDENCE; LIGAMENT INJURY; LYMPHOSARCOMA; MALE; MASTOCYTOMA; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; NEUTERING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPAYING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HIP DYSPLASIA, CANINE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MAST-CELL SARCOMA; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873936288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055937     Document Type: Article

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