Microscopic hematuria in children
Ruberto, U.; D'Eufemia, P.; Filippi, R.; Giardini, O.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 6(2): 281-284
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 6531251 Document Number: 236520
The AA. studied ninety children affected by microscopic hematuria whose origin was not clear. Periodic controls have been effectuated during a period from one to five years. The hematuria is spontaneously disappeared in the 46,7% of the cases. In sixteen children (17,7%) the hematuria was also present in some relatives, nine children were affected by urinary tract malformations. Only twenty subjects were affected by a significant renal pathology.