Morphology of urinary casts: differential diagnosis and terminology of waxy casts in a state of vacuolar degeneration. Learn more about this condition.
🔬 Urine Sediment Microscopy
❗ Previously, we used the term “vacuolated cast”; however, modern atlases increasingly describe it as “waxy cast in a state of vacuolar degeneration.”
❓ Which of these designations do you think most accurately reflects the morphology of such a cast?
🙏 Photos and description kindly provided by biologist Anna Feditskaya, Luhansk
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