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In the pediatric patient, especially the younger child, serious renal disease may present with findings that are nonspecific or unrelated to the urinary tract such as irritability, diarrhea and failure to thrive. Thus, the clinician should always have a high index of suspicion for occult renal dysfunction whenever a child with symptoms or signs of unclear etiology is assessed. History and physical examination are the most important clues to the presence of renal disease. A simple urinalysis, performed by the examiner on a freshly voided urine specimen, is considered an integral part of a complete physical examination, and will be the subject of Chapter 3.
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Yared, A., Barakat, A.Y. (1990). History and Physical Examination of the Child with Renal Disease. In: Barakat, A.Y. (eds) Renal Disease in Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3260-5_2
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