Abstract
The author discusses signs and symptoms suggestive of urinary tract disease, stressing the importance of suspicion when the patient fails to respond to therapy for vague general symptoms seemingly unrelated to renal disease. No routine schedule of tests should be followed. A thorough knowledge of the function and the advantages and disadvantages of each test is necessary to determine its usefulness in the particular problem presented.
The patient's physician and the urologist should cooperate in early diagnosis and care of urinary tract lesions to prevent irreparable damage to renal function.