Diagnostic performance of combined specific urinary proteins and urinary flow cytometry in urinary tract pathology

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-504

  Penders, Joris ^a   Fiers, Tom ^b   Everaert, Karel ^b   Barth, Joeri ^b   Dhondt, Annemieke W ^b   Delanghe, Joris R ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

1 microglobulin; 2 macroglobulin; Proteinuria; Renal disease; Tubulus; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER; CYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLOMERULOPATHY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEUKOCYTE; NEPHROLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEST STRIP; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE FLOW RATE; UROLOGY;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; PROTEINS; PROTEINURIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 34247390558     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.090     Document Type: Article

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