Abstract

"Purpose: Due to increasing number of routine health check, urine cytology test is also increasing to rule out malignant origin of microscopic hematuria. In female, chronic inflammatory condition of the lower urinary tract with or without symptoms are not uncommon and this condition also leads to abnormal urinalysis or urinary cytologic study. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical correlation of the factors related with chronic inflammatory conditions in urine cytology result. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 103 female patients with microscopic hematuria from January 2005 to January 2008. All the data of participating patients were analyzed, and were divided into two groups; normal urine cytology group and abnormal urine cytology group. In each group, correlation between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), pyuria and cytology result was analyzed. Results: In each test group we found that LUTS does not influence to urine cytology results (p=0.549). In the other hand, more pyuria cause more abnormal urine cytology results (p=0.006). Conclusions: Pyuria had effect on urine cytology result. Pyuria with or without LUTS was common in female. Therefore, care should be taken to evaluate female patients with positive hematuria response to routine urine screening test."

• Keywords: Female, Urine cytology, Pyuria