Casts

Granular Casts

Granular casts are composed of plasma protein aggregates and cellular remnants. Granular casts appear as cylinders of coarse, or fine, highly refractive particles. Coarsely granular casts (yellow arrow) contain large, coarse dark yellow or dark brown granules. They are very irregular in shape as shown in this high power magnification under the brightfield microscope. A hyaline cast can be seen just to the left of the coarse granular cast (blue arrow).

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