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Clinical Lecture
Hematuria in Children
Ja Wook Koo
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2004;47(12):1255-1261.   Published online December 15, 2004
The detection of even microscopic amounts of blood in a child's urine, whether accompanied by symptoms or asymptomatic, alarms the patient, parents, and physician, and often prompts the performance of many laboratory studies. Hematuria is one of the most important signs of renal or bladder disease, but proteinuria is a more important diagnostic and prognostic finding, except in the case...