الفهرس 
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Abstract
Hematuria is the presence of blood in the urine and may be macroscopic or microscopic. Hematuria is most accurately defined as: the presence of three or more red blood cells per high powered field in two or three properly collected urine analysis specimen.
This study was conducted to assess the role of CT and MRI in evaluating causes of hematuria.
This was a cross-sectional study included 50 patients complaining of hematuria from Fayoum General & University Hospitals. Out of them, 47 (94.0%) cases with variety of UT abnormalities were identified. Renal masses was the most abnormalities detected 19/47 (40.0%), followed by bladder masses 15/47 (31.9%), urolithiasis 10/47 (21.3%) and renal injury 3/47 (6.4%). No abnormalities were found in 3/50 (6%) of the patients with hematuria.
In patients with bladder masses, more than one third 6/15 (40%) had flank pain and one fifth 3/15 (20%) had acute renal retention. In renal RCC, about one quarter 3/10 (30%) had flank pain, while one case experienced appearance of abdominal mass. In the two children with Wilm`s tumour, one cases had flank pain and the other one complained by abdominal mass. As regards renal stone, half of cases were found to have flank pain.
15 cases of UB soft tissue mass lesions (10 cases) or focal thickenings (5 cases) were detected at MDCT and MRI. All focal thickening lesions were found in UB walls. As regards masses, most lesions were detected in the lateral wall 6/10