Supravital staining method by Pytel and Shapiro for detecting active leukocytes (Sternheimer-Malbin cells) in urine sediment in pyelonephritis.
🔬 Urine. Active leukocytes (Sternheimer-Malbin cells, Glitter cells). ✅ Supravital staining by Pytel and Shapiro method, magnification x400+zoom. ❗ Found in 80% of patients with pyelonephritis. Their absence is a reason to reconsider the diagnosis (according to Kost). ✅ Granules in the cytoplasm move under the influence of thermal (Brownian) motion of molecules.
👉Material kindly provided by medical laboratory technician Dmitry Emelyanov.
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