The urinary sediment

• Cells
  • Leukocytes

    Leukocytes type old

    Glitters

    Pus

    Macrophages

  • Erythrocytes

    Erythrocytes

  • Epithelium

    Squamous cells

    Squamous cells

    RTC

    Proximal renal epithelial cells

    Collecting RTC

    Necrotic RTC

    Renal epithelial fragments

    Renal urothelial cells

    Transitional cells

    Transitional cells

    Normal transitional cell fragments

    Atypical transitional epithelial fragments

  • Oval fat bodies

    Oval fat bodies

• Casts
  • Origin and composition of casts
  • Hyaline and waxy casts

    Hyaline casts

    Waxy casts

  • Blood casts

    Red blood cells casts

    True blood casts

  • Cellular casts

    RTC casts

    White blood cells casts

    Macrophages casts

  • Fatty casts

    Fatty casts

  • Granular casts

    Granular casts

    Dirty brown casts

  • Miscellaneous casts

    Bacterial casts

    Calcium oxalates casts

    Uric acid crystals casts

    Myeloma casts

    Unknown casts

• Crystals
  • About crystals
  • Calcium oxalates

    Weddelite

    Whewellite

  • Uric acid and urates

    Uric acid

  • Phosphates crystals

    Triple phosphates

    Calcium phosphate (brushite)

  • Rares crystals

    Cystine

    Leucine

    Tyrosine

    Bilirubine

    Hemosiderine

  • Drug crystalluria
  • confirmatory tests
• Microorganisms and other element
  • Bacteria
  • Yeasts
  • Spermatozoïdes
  • Mucus
  • Artifacts
• Case histories
  • Nephrotic syndrome
  • 2,8-dihydroxyadenine crystalluria
  • Hepato-renal failure. 
  • Mites in an urinary sediment
• Specimen preparation for microscopic analysis
• Staining methods
  • Toluidine blue
  • Hansel stain
  • Chloroacetate esterase
  • PAP
• The microscope
• References
• Atlas