Diagnostic imaging findings and endocrine test results in dogs with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism that did or did not have neurologic abnormalities: 157 cases (1989-2005)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 231, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1081-1085

  Wood, Farica D ^a   Pollard, Rachel E ^a   Uerling, Megan R ^a   Feldman, Edward C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX HYPERFUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ADRENOCORTICAL HYPERFUNCTION; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 35548981783     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.231.7.1081     Document Type: Review

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