Cellular cast

Source

Virginie Falcot, Biologist, Laboratoire du Quartier Latin, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, France.

Description

A cast containing many renal tubular epithelial cells, with their typical large central nucleus, found in the urine of a patient with acute kidney injury. The presence of these casts, commonly defined as “epithelial casts”, always indicate a damage of the renal parenchyma at tubular level.

Keywords

CAST