Bilirubin cast
Bilirubin cast from the urinary sediment of a patient with cancer of the liver. It is a pigmented bile cast and yellowish brown, such as is oft…
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Bubble cast (2)
Vacuolated cast from the urinary sediment of a patient with diabetic nephropathy. The matrix of the cast is hyaline, and contains vacuolated ce…
Bubble cast (1)
Vacuolated cast from the urinary sediment of a patient with diabetic nephropathy. The cast is filled with vacuoles of various sizes. Sternheim…
Bence Jones protein cast and myeloma cell
Bence Jones protein cast (myeloma cast) from the urinary sediment of a patient with lambda-Bence Jones type multiple myeloma. Sternheimer stei…
White blood cell cast (1)
White blood cell cast from the urinary sediment of a patient with chronic glomerulonephritis. The cast contains polynuclear white blood cells. …
Red blood cell cast (stained)
Red blood cell cast from the urinary sediment of the preceding patient. The red blood cells in the cast have been stained red with Sternheimer-M…
Red blood cell cast (unstained)
Red blood cell cast from the urinary sediment of a patient with chronic glomerulonephritis. The cast looks red because of the hemoglobin of the …
Benign atypical cell (1)
Renal tubular epithelial cells from the urinary sediment of a patient with nephrotic syndrome. These cells have a high nucleocytoplasmic ratio …
Oval fat body
Clump of oval fat bodies from the urinary sediment of a patient with chronic gromerulonephritis complicated with nephrotic syndrome. These oval…
Malignant atypical cell (Squamous cell carcinoma) (1)
Atypical cells from the urinary sediment of a patient with cancer of the cervix. The pathological diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma (cornif…
Malignant atypical cell (Transitional cell carcinoma) (1)
Atypical cell from the urinary sediment of a patient with cancer of the bladder. The pathological diagnosis was transitional cell carcinoma (G2…
Macrophage
Cells with cytoplasmic inclusions, from the urinary sediment of a patient with leukemia during chemotherapy. The cells are round and of various…
Ileum epithelial cell
Cells with cytoplasmic inclusion from the urinary sediment of a patient after removal of the cancerous bladder There are many degenerate epithe…
Renal tubular epithelial cell
Cell with cytoplasmic inclusion from the urinary sediment of a patient with measles. Sternheimer stain, X400. Another cell with cytoplasmic i…
Intranuclear inclusion body (2)
Cells with inclusions in the nucleus from the urinary sediment of a patient after kidney transplantation. These probably are cells infected wi…
Intranuclear inclusion body (1)
Cells with inclusions in the nucleus from the urinary sediment of a patient after kidney transplantation. These are renal tubular epithelial ce…
Renal tubular epithelial cell (1)
Renal tubular epithelial cells from the urinary sediment of a patient with acute tubular necrosis caused by mercury poisoning. The patient took…