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Evidence-based equine upper respiratory surgery.

Beard WL, Waxman S

Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. wbeard@ksu.edu <wbeard@ksu.edu>

The purpose of this article is to review the veterinary literature for various surgical procedures of the equine upper respiratory tract in an effort to evaluate the evidence supporting various therapies. This article focuses on the therapeutic benefit from more widely occurring conditions, such as laryngeal hemiplegia, dorsal displacement of the soft palate, arytenoid chondritis, and epiglottic entrapment.

Published 9 July 2007 in Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract, 23(2): 229-42.
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