🔬 Urine sediment microscopy. Uric acid crystals. Magnification 100x and 400x. Uric acid crystals found during microscopic examination are usually yellow, dark yellow, or brownish-yellow and have a rhomboid shape. As they grow, crystals can take on the shape of a whetstone, spindle, bar, barrel, piece of cut sugar, regular hexagonal plate, irregular hexagon, butterfly, heart, hammer, dumbbell, and other exotic forms. They can be found in healthy individuals with acidic urine.
🙏 Photos and description kindly provided by biologist Anna Feditskaya, Luhansk.
