Urinanalysis (UA): A neglected but easy and inexpensive diagnostic tool

NDT Plus

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 354-356

  Györik, Sándor ^a   Jandus, Peter ^a   Marone, Claudio ^a,b  

^a REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

multiple sclerosis; small vessel vasculitis; urine analysis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE EROSIVE COLITIS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHILIA; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SEDIMENTATION RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 77956032452     PISSN: 17530784     EISSN: 17530792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfp088     Document Type: Article

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