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Urine Sediment Microscopy Case: 63-Year-Old Male
A clinical case study on urine sediment microscopy for a 63-year-old male. Identify the structures found and answer a colleague's question.
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Urinalysis
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Renal Epithelium and Uric Acid Crystals in Urine Sediment
Microscopy of urine sediment: differentiation of renal epithelial cells and uric acid crystals. Laboratory criteria for identifying sediment elements.
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Urine Sediment Microscopy: Differentiating Elements
Clinical case of urine analysis in a man with 0.25 g/L protein: native sediment microscopy, differential diagnosis of casts, epithelium, and artifacts.
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Urinary Sediment Microscopy: Neutrophil Phagocytosis of Bacteria
Microscopic examination of urinary sediment in bacterial infection: demonstrating active phagocytosis of cocci and rod-shaped bacteria by neutrophils.
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Urinary Casts: Hyaline, Granular, and Waxy Types
Morphological characteristics of casts in native urine sediment: fatty, hyaline, granular, and waxy casts under light microscopy.
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High Urine Specific Gravity: Hypersthenuria and Glucosuria
Measuring urine specific gravity with a urinometer: a value of 1051 with 12 mmol/L glucosuria. Causes of pronounced hypersthenuria in urine analysis.
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Uric Acid Crystals in Urine Sediment Microscopy
Morphology of uric acid crystals in urine sediment: polymorphism of forms, rosettes, and druses during microscopic examination in laboratory diagnostics.
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Urine Sediment Microscopy: Suspicion of an Oocyst
Clinical case of urine sediment microscopy in an ICU patient: differential diagnosis of a suspicious inclusion, oocysts, and artifacts.
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Urinary Sediment Microscopy: Cells, Flora, and Casts
Key elements of urinary sediment under light microscopy: erythrocytes, leukocytes, epithelium, hyaline, granular, and waxy casts, bacteria, and yeast.
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Bacteriuria in Urinalysis: Types and Sediment Microscopy
What the detection of bacteria in urine sediment means. Analysis of true, false, and asymptomatic bacteriuria, nitrite test, and microscopic picture of the sediment.
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Calcium Oxalate Crystals in Urinalysis: Morphology and Significance
Learn about the morphology of envelope-shaped calcium oxalate crystals in urine sediment microscopy and the diagnostic value of oxaluria in clinical laboratory practice.
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Ammonium Urate and Oxalate Crystals in Urine Sediment
Microscopy of a child's urine sediment with neutral pH: ammonium urate crystals ("thorn apples"), calcium oxalates, and calcium carbonate.