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Examples of varying granular and granular/waxy mixed casts: 
A: coarse granular/broad-waxy (and surrounding white blood cells);
and granular/waxy ... surrounding white blood ... /muddy brown granular ... , C and D: muddy ... brown granular/
Muddy Brown Granular Casts three ways - Brightfield, Darkfield, Phase Contrast.

Dr. Vipin Varghese @vipvargh

#Muddy #Brown #Granular
Muddy Brown Granular ... Varghese @vipvargh #Muddy ... #Brown #Granular
Granular & “Muddy Brown” Casts on Urine Microscopy
A. Finely granular cast B. slightly coarser granular cast
Granular & “Muddy ... Finely granular ... slightly coarser granular ... coarse (c) and muddy ... brown (mb) granular
Plasmodium Falciparum Gametocytes on Blood Smear.

Banana-shaped gametocytes are only seen in Plasmodium falciparum but rare in
Gametocytes on Blood ... Smear. ... falciparum but rare in blood ... smears - don't ... #Smear.
Urinary Casts and Disease Associations
Hyaline - May be nonspecific; seen in normal individuals or during severe
concentrated urine Granular ... cellular casts "Muddy-brown ... " heme-granular ... disease Red blood ... Glomerulonephritis White blood
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
promyelocytic leukemia (blood ... overt cytoplasmic granules ... Hematology #Clinical #Smear
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
of crystallized granules ... Path #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
Plasmodium Falciparum Blood Smear.
Key features suggesting Plasmodium falciparum:
- extreme parasitemia
- normocytic RBCs (vivax, ovale prefer big
Plasmodium Falciparum Blood ... Smear. ... P.f. but rare in blood ... smears - don't ... #Smear.
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
abundant cytoplasmic granules ... her peripheral blood ... smear showed hypogranular ... Path #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
Babesia spp. on Peripheral Blood Smear Microscopy
 - Multiple small parasites per RBC
 - "maltese cross"
on Peripheral Blood ... Smear Microscopy ... microbiology #peripheral #blood ... #smear