Automation of urine sediment examination: A comparison of the Sysmex UF-100 automated flow cytometer with routine manual diagnosis (microscopy, test strips, and bacterial culture)

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 753-764

  Hannemann Pohl, Kurt ^a,b   Kampf, Sieghard Carsten ^a  

^a Institut fur Laboratoriumsmedizin   (Germany)

^b Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated urine particle analysis; Urinalysis; Urine flow cytometer; Urine sediment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TEST STRIP; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; REAGENT STRIPS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032858501     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.116     Document Type: Article

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