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Renal pathologist
Mar 14, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Glomerular crescents 🌙

❓What’s a crescent?

🔬Crescentic GN?

🧩 How are crescents formed?

🔬🗂 Types of crescents? ❗️Pseudo-crescents?
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#renalpath #PathResidents #Pathbracket ❓A crescent is defined as two or more layers of cells that are partially or completely filling the Bowman’s space

📥composed of
-Mixture of cells(epithelial cells, monocytes and other leukocytes)
-fibrin
-fibrous matrix. (2/6)