Relationship of nutritional factors to the cause, dissolution, and prevention of canine uroliths.
Nutritional factors play a variable role in the etiopathogenesis of canine struvite, ammonium urate, cysteine, calcium oxalate, and silica uroliths. Knowledge of these factors allows modification of diets to promote dissolution of selected minerals within uroliths.
Osborne
C A
CA
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108.
Polzin
D J
DJ
Lulich
J P
JP
Kruger
J M
JM
Johnston
G R
GR
O'Brien
T D
TD
Felice
L J
LJ
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