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Lipid droplets may interfere with urinary red blood cell and crystal counts by urinary flow cytometry

  • Matthijs Oyaert EMAIL logo , Sander De Bruyne , Christel Van Camp , Inge Van de Caveye and Joris Delanghe ORCID logo

Corresponding author: Matthijs Oyaert, Pharm, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, Phone: 09/332 63 10, E-mail:

  1. Research ethics: The study was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the local Ethical Committee of Ghent University Hospital.

  2. Informed consent: No informed consent was needed for this study.

  3. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  4. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  5. Research funding: None declared.

  6. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-07-24
Accepted: 2023-08-20
Published Online: 2023-08-29
Published in Print: 2024-02-26

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