Results of cerebrospinal fluid analysis, neurologic examination findings, and age at the onset of seizures as predictors for results of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in dogs examined because of seizures: 115 cases (1992-2000)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 781-784

  Bush, William W ^a,b   Barr, Christina S ^a   Darrin, Edwin W ^a   Shofer, Frances S ^a   Vite, Charles H ^a   Steinberg, Sheldon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VCA Veterinary Referral Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEIZURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037088726     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.220.781     Document Type: Article

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