Urinary Calprotectin loses specificity as tumour marker due to sterile leukocyturia associated with bladder cancer

• Kathrin Bausch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathrin.bausch@usb.ch

  Affiliation Urological University-Clinic Basel-Liestal, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6253-0854

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• Elisa Roth,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Stefan Heinz,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• David Horst,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Susanne Mathia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Tatjana Vlajnic,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Lukas Bubendorf,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Timm Westhoff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Marien Hospital Herne, University Clinic of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany

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• Christian Wetterauer,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Urological University-Clinic Basel-Liestal, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Hans Helge Seifert,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Urological University-Clinic Basel-Liestal, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Jan Ebbing

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Urological University-Clinic Basel-Liestal, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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