Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2017; 30(02): V-VI
DOI: 10.3415/VCOT-17-02-0033
Guest Editorial
Schattauer GmbH

Navicular disease…remembrance of things past

Matthew Stewart
1   Associate Editor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
28 December 2017 (online)

 

 
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