Urinary corticoid/creatinine ratios in the differentiation between pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism and hyperadrenocorticism due to adrenocortical tumour in the dog

Veterinary Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-20

  Galac, S ^a,b   Kooistra, H S ^a   Teske, E ^a   Rijnberk, A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DOG; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPERADRENOCORTICISM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL HYPERFUNCTION; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CREATININE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; REFERENCE VALUES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0031408454     PISSN: 01652176     EISSN: 18755941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01652176.1997.9694731     Document Type: Article

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