Urine examination as a diagnostic aid in haematuria.

Dried smears of urinary sediments stained with leishman's stain were examined and compared in 30 selected patient with haematuria. In 12 patients with microscopic haematuria and glomerular lesions, red cells were dysmorphic showing variation in size and shape, and were hypochromic [dehaemoglobinized]. While in the 18 patients with nonglomerular causes of haematuria red cells were uniform in size and shape and using this technique which is simple non ivasive, inexpensive, we could suggest a possible source of bleeding in cases of haematuria