Disorders of sexual differentiation in puppies and kittens: A diagnostic and clinical approach

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 573-606

  Romagnoli, Stefano ^a   Schlafer, Donald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOG; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; GONADAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; PROSTATE DISEASE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TESTIS DISEASE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERUS DISEASE; VAGINA DISEASE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; XX MALE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645059468     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2005.12.007     Document Type: Review

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