Urinalysis and Body Fluids 6th Edition by Majorie DiLorenzo, Susan Strasinger

Exercise 59

A person submitting a urine specimen following a strenuous exercise routine can normally have all of the following in the sediment except:

A. Hyaline casts

B. Granular casts

C. RBC casts

D. WBC casts

Step 1 of 3

Casts:

Casts are formed in kidney and found in urinary sediment.

Types of casts:

• Hyaline casts, Waxy casts, Mucus resembling casts, RBC (Red Blood Cell) casts, WBC (White Blood Cell) casts, granular casts, bacterial casts, fatty casts, mixed cellular casts, broad casts, cylindrical renal tubular cells.