Clinical, clinicopathologic, radiographic, and ultrasonographic characteristics of intestinal lymphangiectasia in dogs: 17 cases (1996-1998)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-202

  Kull, Patricia A ^a,b   Hess, Rebecka S ^a   Craig, Linden E ^a,c   Saunders, H Mark ^a   Washabau, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Vet Int Med Allerg Specialists   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTESTINE LYMPHANGIECTASIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHANGIECTASIS, INTESTINAL; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN; VOMITING; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0035880145     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2001.219.197     Document Type: Article

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