Dipstick urine analysis for detection of renal abnormalities among school children
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Urine Dipstick Analysis
All samples should be midstream and collected in a clean sterile container. Suprapubic aspiration or fresh catheter samples are ideal, but not always practical. The gold standard method of testing is to remove a small volume of urine from the sterile container with a fresh sterile syringe, and then apply the removed urine to the dipstick. In this way, the remainder of the collected sample conte...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2349-3291,2349-3283
DOI: 10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20202605