Leucine crystals are abnormal in urine
Appearance: yellow-brown spheroids with concentric rings around the outer edge and radial striations in the center.
Leucine crystals may be ...
Tyrosine crystals are abnormal in urine
Appearance: colorless to yellow-brown single needles. Also seen as sheaves or rosettes.
Tyrosine crystals may be seen in tyrosinemia and ...
Squamous epithelial cells
These are often present in the urinary sediment
They are large and irregularly shaped, with a small nucleus and fine granular cytoplasm
Calcium Oxlalate crystals are normal in urine.
Appearance: colorless, many forms:
Dihydrate: octahedral (“envelope”) is most common
Monohydrate: dumbbell, ovoid, or ...
Bilirubin crystals are abnormal crystals in urine.
Appearance: Yellow-brown needles or granules. They are frequently attached to the surface of cells.
Bilirubin crystals are seen ...
Cystine Crystals are abnormal in urine.
Appearance: colorless, thin, hexagonal plates.
Cystine crystals are found in the inherited condition, cystinuria.
Cystine crystals are the most ...
There are white blood cells, bacteria and mucus present.The number of white blood cells could suggest the presence of a urinary tract infection.
If the white blood cells were not present,the ...
Left is Oxalate Crystals , Right is Uric Acid Crystals
Note the PH of the Urine sample was 6
in hypotonic urine usually below < 1.005, the granules in vital white blood cell shows Brownian movements, these cells usually seen in Urinary Tract Infections, these cells called ...
These are cystine crystals.
they are soluble in ammonia
they are soluble in alkaline pH
Sulfa crystals from the urinary sediment of a patient taking (sulfamethoxazol), These crystals resemble crystals of uric acid or calcium oxalate, but sulfa crystals are soluble in acetone
Sulfa ...
The cells shown in this field are red blood cells, white blood cells, and yeast