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Is genitourinary imaging necessary in patients who have microscopic hematuria after trauma?

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The synopsis was written by Rachel Murphy, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. and San Francisco General Hospital. JW McAninch is Vice Chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of California, BB Voelzke is a Fellow in Trauma and Male Reconstructive Urologic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, and Chief of Urology at San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA.,

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Voelzke, B., McAninch, J. Is genitourinary imaging necessary in patients who have microscopic hematuria after trauma?. Nat Rev Urol 4, 590–591 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0919

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