Urinary and Plasma Catecholamines and Metanephrines in Dogs with Pheochromocytoma Hypercortisolism Nonadrenal Disease and in Healthy Dogs

摘要

BackgroundDiagnosis of pheochromocytoma (PC) is based on a combination of clinical suspicion, finding an adrenal mass, increased plasma, and urine concentrations of catecholamine metabolites and is finally confirmed with histopathology. In human medicine, it is controversial whether biochemically testing plasma is superior to testing urine.