The ongoing quest for a validated, universally accepted visual lameness grading scale

Constanza B Gómez Álvarez^{1

2}, Maarten Oosterlinck³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK.
³ Department of Large Animal Surgery, Anaesthesia and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.

Editorial

Constanza B Gómez Álvarez et al. Equine Vet J. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;55(1):5-8.

doi: 10.1111/evj.13896. Epub 2022 Nov 16.

Constanza B Gómez Álvarez^{1

2}, Maarten Oosterlinck³

¹ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK.
³ Department of Large Animal Surgery, Anaesthesia and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.

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