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Hematuria and Hematospermia: Clinical Evaluation and Principles of Management

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Urological Oncology

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Hematuria is defined as the presence of blood in the urine on visual inspection or quantified on urine analysis. Regardless of the quantity of blood in the urine, hematuria is malignancy until proven otherwise in high-risk patients.

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  1. Department of Urology, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK

    Khurshid R. Ghani BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCS (Ed)

  2. St. Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals Queen Mary Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, UK

    Vinod H. Nargund PhD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU (Chair, Uro-Oncology MDT and Consultant Urological Surgeon)

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  1. St. Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals Queen Mary Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, UK

    Vinod H. Nargund PhD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU (Chair, Uro-Oncology MDT and Consultant Urological Surgeon) (Chair, Uro-Oncology MDT and Consultant Urological Surgeon)

  2. Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Derek Raghavan MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP (Chairman and Director) (Chairman and Director)

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Howard M. Sandler MD (Professor and Senior Associate Chair) (Professor and Senior Associate Chair)

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Ghani, K.R., Nargund, V.H. (2008). Hematuria and Hematospermia: Clinical Evaluation and Principles of Management. In: Nargund, V.H., Raghavan, D., Sandler, H.M. (eds) Urological Oncology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-738-1_4

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