Assistant lecturer of Histopathology, Special interest in Renal pathology.
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?
(1/6) #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)
