Bite cells (“Degmacytes”) RBCs with peripheral single or multiple arcuate defects. Usually associated with spherocytes and blister cells. seen in : Oxidant stress. Normal ...

Basophilic stippling is the occurrence of fine, medium, or coarse blue granules uniformly distributed throughout some red blood cells. Fine stippling may be associated with polychromatophilia, ...

Charcot-Leyden crystals. These crystals are the breakdown products of eosinophils and maybe found in the feces and sputum of people with tissue-invading parasitic infections or various ...

mostly PMNs Causes: renal infarction, infections,acute/interstitial/lupus nephritis …. when cells degenerate–>granular appearance    

 2-6x wider than ordinary casts

RED CELL CASTS means renal hematuria, always pathologic Causes: acute glomerulonephritis, lupus nephritis, Goodpastures, SBE, renal trauma,renal infarction, severe pyelonephritis, ...