Examination of the urine; a manual for students and practitioners . Fig. 66.—Fatty casts (after Peyer). to hyaline or granular casts which show one or two oil-globules. They occur in short, highly refracting cylinders,and may show bristling, needle-like hair or crystals of fattyacids. The minute fat-drops are highly glistening, andshould not be confounded with granules, which have aduller luster. 308 EXAMINATION OF THE URINE These casts were first discovered by Knoll, and areusual in protracted cases of chronic nephritis with atendency to fatty degeneration of the kidney. Fatty de-generation,
Examination of the urine; a manual for students and practitioners . Fig. 66.—Fatty casts (after Peyer). to hyaline or granular casts which show one or two oil-globules. They occur in short, highly refracting cylinders,and may show bristling, needle-like hair or crystals of fattyacids. The minute fat-drops are highly glistening, andshould not be confounded with granules, which have aduller luster. 308 EXAMINATION OF THE URINE These casts were first discovered by Knoll, and areusual in protracted cases of chronic nephritis with atendency to fatty degeneration of the kidney. Fatty de-generation, it must be remembered, shows an advancedstage of alteration in the renal cell. Fatty casts are alsofound in the fatty stage of acute nephritis, and occasion-ally in severe renal congestions. Pus-casts are hyaline or granular cylinders coveredwith pus-cells or leukocytes. They are often confoundedwith epithelial casts because the pus-cells are often so.
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