Clinical features, treatment options, and outcome in dogs with thymoma: 116 cases (1999-2010)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 243, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1448-1454

  Robat, Cecilia S ^a   Cesario, Lori ^b   Gaeta, Rachael ^c   Miller, Mairin ^d   Schrempp, Diane ^e   Chun, Ruthanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886993718     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.243.10.1448     Document Type: Article

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