Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry . Granular Casts. Epithelial Casts. in Fig. 82, a, may be found in such cases, or id the subacuteform of the disease. Fatty Casts, or Oil Casts, are such as reveal oil drops inthe cast material. They occur in chronic nephritis attendedby fatty degeneration. It is sometimes difficult to determinewhether the granular degeneration seen in these casts is due tothe degeneration of the cast itself, after having been formed, orwhether it is the result of the disintegration of blood or epithe-lium cells. These casts form in the tubules and often remain
Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry . Granular Casts. Epithelial Casts. in Fig. 82, a, may be found in such cases, or id the subacuteform of the disease. Fatty Casts, or Oil Casts, are such as reveal oil drops inthe cast material. They occur in chronic nephritis attendedby fatty degeneration. It is sometimes difficult to determinewhether the granular degeneration seen in these casts is due tothe degeneration of the cast itself, after having been formed, orwhether it is the result of the disintegration of blood or epithe-lium cells. These casts form in the tubules and often remainthere for a considerable time—a sufficient time, perhaps, to un-dergo granular and even fatty degeneration. It is certain that 620 MEDICAL CHEMISTRY. Fig the coarsely granular and fatty casts are never found in the firststages of the disease. • W^axy Casts are a variety resembling hyaline casts in someinstances, but are more dense and more distorted, and frequentlyare cracked or torn along the edges, or they have lost the regu-larity of their
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