An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . nd hypertrophied prostates. Thewriter has never been able to convince himself that such casts do exist. The significance of casts in the urine cannot here be considered at anylength. The mere presence of casts of any sort means, perhaps, only a tem-porary congestion of the organ or a more definite hyperemia. It may, butdoes not of necessity, mean organic disease of the kidney. The kind ofcasts—i. e. their shape, size, and appearance—is often an aid in diagnosis,certain forms being more or less definitely asso
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . nd hypertrophied prostates. Thewriter has never been able to convince himself that such casts do exist. The significance of casts in the urine cannot here be considered at anylength. The mere presence of casts of any sort means, perhaps, only a tem-porary congestion of the organ or a more definite hyperemia. It may, butdoes not of necessity, mean organic disease of the kidney. The kind ofcasts—i. e. their shape, size, and appearance—is often an aid in diagnosis,certain forms being more or less definitely associated with certain varietiesof renal disease. Hyaline casts (Figs. 10, 11) occur so commonly as to be the least dis-tinctive of all. They are generally present in passive congestion of thekidneys, during the period of recovery from an acute nephritis, and verygenerally in a variety of chronic renal inflammations. 40 URINE-ANAL YSIS. Granular casts (Figs. 12, 13) are also found in many of these chronicdiseases, but, as a rule, the process is of a more active type than those in.
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