Abstract
The cytological examination of (158) urine specimens was carried out in this study. It has been found that 105 (66.4%) samples gave positive results for urinary tract infection (U.T.I). Pus cells were found prevalent among other cell types (93.3%) of all positive UTI cases followed by epithelial cell (81.9%) and R. B. Cs (39%). Also it was found that pus cell casts were the dominant type, since it was present in (50.4%) of all positive UTI specimens, followed by hyaline casts (36.1%) granular casts (35.2%), epithelial cell casts (23.8%), RBC casts (19%), and other types (11.4%). The present study revealed that amorphous urate crystals had large percentage of crystal types (44.7%), other crystal types were present at various percentages: Calcium phosphate crystals (34.2%), Calcium oxalate crystals (35.2%), uric acid crystals (25.7%), sodium urate crystals (18.0%), Ammonium urate crystals (11.4%) and other (17.1%).
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