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  • Sarcocystosis
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  • Overview of Osteopathies in Small Animals
  • Developmental Osteopathies in Small Animals
  • Osteomyelitis in Small Animals
  • Hypertrophic Osteopathy in Small Animals
  • Nutritional Osteopathies in Small Animals
  • Bone Tumors in Small Animals
  • Bone Trauma in Small Animals
 
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Overview of Osteopathies in Small Animals

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Osteopathies can be developmental, infectious (osteomyelitis), idiopathic (eg, hypertrophic osteopathy), nutritional, or due to bone tumors or trauma.

Last full review/revision March 2012 by Joseph Harari, MS, DVM, DACVS

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