Microscopic hematuria is the term used to describe blood cells in the urine that cannot be seen with the naked eye but can be ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Most episodes of hematuria, especially if microscopic and not gross, result from benign causes. Nonetheless, malignant etiologies such as ...

Microscopic hematuria: Red blood cells are only visible under a microscope Gross hematuria: The urine appears pink or red ...

The diagnostic yield in adults increases with age and is higher for gross hematuria (5 to 23 percent) than for microscopic hematuria (up to 14 percent), and for higher grades of bleeding than for ...

Doctors refer to blood in the urine as hematuria. Visible urine in the blood is called gross hematuria, as opposed to microscopic hematuria, which refers to blood only visible under a microscope.