Chapter 19 Integumentary System

Wound Healing, Management, and Reconstruction

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Burns and Acute Swellings

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    4. Purpura Hemorrhagica
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Equine Infectious Anemia

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Idiopathic Urticaria

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Malignant Edema

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Nutritional Myopathy

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  2. Pratt SM, Spier SJ, Carroll SP et al: Evaluation of clinical characteristics, diagnostic test results, and outcome in horses with internal infection caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: 30 cases (1995-2003), J Am Vet Med Assoc 227(3):441-448, 2005. PUBMED Abstract
  3. Step DL, Divers TJ, Cooper B et al: Severe masseter myonecrosis in a horse, J Am Vet Med Assoc 198:117-119, 1991. PUBMED Abstract

Snake Bite

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