Haematuria: from identification to treatment
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Haematuria: from identification to treatment
Haematuria has a prevalence of 0.1% 2.6%. Potential diagnoses may include infection, kidney stones, trauma, exercise or spurious causes, such as foods, drugs or menstruation, and a tumour. Approximately 40% of patients with haematuria are found to have a significant underlying pathology, with half of these having a urological malignancy. Haematuria is subsequently known as the “classic presenta...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nursing
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0966-0461,2052-2819
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2014.23.sup9.s28