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Bone plating to stabilize atlantoaxial subluxation in four dogs
Author(s) -
Stead A. C.,
Anderson A. A.,
Coughlan A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1993.tb03905.x
Subject(s) - medicine , subluxation , plating (geology) , surgery , orthodontics , anatomy , pathology , alternative medicine , geophysics , geology
Four dogs with atlantoaxial subluxation were treated surgically via a ventral approach and the application of an ASIF mini H plate and 2·0 mm screws to the vertebral bodies. Three dogs recovered and are well but one dog died of a cardiac arrest postoperatively.