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A congenital defect of the distal forelimb of a cat and of a dog

Author(s) -

Graham Louw,

S.H. Kidson,

S.J.E.M. Van Schouwenburg

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

journal of the south african veterinary association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2224-9435

pISSN - 1019-9128

DOI - 10.4102/jsava.v73i1.551

Subject(s) - forelimb , veterinary medicine , discipline , medicine , political science , geography , anatomy , law

Extracted from text ... To the editor - Aan die redakteurA congenital defect of the distal forelimb of a cat and of a dogA sterilised, female calico domestic cat,weighing 4 kg, was presented to a privatepractitioner for examination. Her motherhad produced her first and only litter,comprising 6 kittens, at the age of 3 years.Apart from this particular cat, all of thekittens appeared to be normal.The cat presented appeared to have noproblems apart from the structure of herright forelimb, which she did not usewhen walking. The distal portion of theforelimb appeared to be duplicated, andthe tips of each of the 2 rays bore digitswith claws. ..

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