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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 492650, 17 pages
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Review Article

A Review of Equine Laparoscopy

Dean A. Hendrickson1,2

1American College of Veterinary Surgeons, USA
2College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Received 26 July 2012; Accepted 5 October 2012

Academic Editors: R. Harasawa and M. H. Kogut

Copyright © 2012 Dean A. Hendrickson. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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