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Alternaria Fungal Spores in Urine Sediment Microscopy
Learn to identify Alternaria fungal spores in urine sediment. Understand why finding conidia is an artifact with no diagnostic significance.
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Calcium Phosphate Crystals in Urine Sediment: Morphology
Morphology of calcium phosphate crystals in urine sediment microscopy: differentiation of dibasic and monobasic forms, rosettes, needles, and plates.
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Drug Crystals in Coprogram: Identification and Differential Diagnosis
Morphology of drug crystals during fecal microscopy in coprogram: features of identification and differential diagnosis of elements.
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Urinary Casts in Renal Failure: A Case of Massive Cylindruria
Microscopy of urine sediment: massive cylindruria in a 14-year-old patient with chronic renal failure. Morphology and diagnostic significance of casts in renal insufficiency.
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Urine Sediment Microscopy: Crystalluria and Tumor Cells
Peculiarities of urine sediment microscopy: detection of calcium oxalate crystals in general clinical analysis and adenocarcinoma cells in cytology.
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Crystals in Urine Sediment: Types, Norm, and Pathology
Varieties of crystals in urine sediment during microscopy: oxalates, urates, phosphates, cystine, cholesterol, and drug crystals in urinalysis.
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Neutral Fat in Stool: Sudan III Staining for Steatorrhea
Stool microscopy in coprogram: detection of neutral fat droplets using Sudan III staining for laboratory diagnosis of steatorrhea.
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Saliva Fern Sign for Ovulation Detection: Microscopic View
Evaluating the fern sign phenomenon in dried saliva for ovulation detection: microscopic images during fertile and non-fertile days of the menstrual cycle.
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Calcium Oxalate Crystals in Urine Sediment Microscopy
Urine sediment microscopy reveals a mucus thread encrusted with calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals. Learn about crystalluria features at acidic urine pH.
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Multinucleated Transitional Epithelium in Urinalysis
Urine sediment microscopy at 40x magnification: a quadrinucleated transitional epithelial cell against a background of altered erythrocytes. Cytomorphology features.
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Psammoma Bodies in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Psammoma bodies in a cytological preparation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: microscopic features, hematoxylin and eosin stain.
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Cystine Crystals in Urine Sediment in Cystinuria
Characteristic hexagonal cystine crystals in acidic urine sediment: microscopic features, formation mechanism, and clinical significance in cystinuria.