Agreement between computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and surgical findings in dogs with degenerative lumbosacral stenosis

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 229, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1924-1929

  Suwankong, Niyada ^a,c   Voorhout, George ^b   Hazewinkel, Herman A W ^a   Meij, Björn P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE LUMBOSACRAL STENOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33845580828     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.229.12.1924     Document Type: Article

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