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[Recent advances on routine urinalysis].

K Ito
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Urine qualitative/semiquantitative tests with reagent-strip and microscopic examination(sediments) are most popular and basic clinical laboratory tests. However, the accuracy and precision of those tests have not been more reliable than that of clinical chemistry or hematology, mainly due to the instability of urine specimen and subjective analysis procedure. Automated analyzer with compact size and high quality of both reagent-strip method and sediments(formed elements or particles) have been commonly used in many laboratories and guidelines on urinalysis of JCCLS(Japan), NCCLS(USA) and ECLM(EU) are publishing in succession recently. These advances are expected to lead to a solution for those problems in the urinalysis field.

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K Ito. 2000. [Recent advances on routine urinalysis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11051796/

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