Electroencephalography findings in healthy and finnish spitz dogs with epilepsy: Visual and background quantitative analysis

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1299-1306

  Jeserevics, Janis ^a,b   Viitmaa, Ranno ^a,c   Cizinauskas, Sigitas ^a   Sainio, Kimmo ^d   Jokinen, Tarja S ^a   Snellman, Marjatta ^a   Bellino, Claudio ^e   Bergamasco, Luciana ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Referral Animal Neurology Hospital Aisti   (Finland)

^c ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benign transients of sleep; Canine; Focal idiopathic epilepsy; Medetomidine; Quantitative electroencephalography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 37349015922     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/06-285.1     Document Type: Article

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