Effects of iatrogenic blood contamination on results of cerebrospinal fluid analysis in clinically normal dogs and dogs with neurologic disease

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 866-867

  Hurtt, Anne Elizabeth ^a   Smith, Mary Olivia ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL ERRORS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0031252597     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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