Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Decoy Cells due to Polyomavirus BK in the Urine Sediment of an Immunocompetent Patient.

Abstract

Jose Antonio Tesser Poloni*, Gabriel Godinho Pinto, Clotilde Druck Garcia and Alessandro C Pasqualotto

A 3-year-old girl with chronic kidney insufficiency (CKI) due to left kidney dysplasia and right multicystic kidney presented decoy cells due to polyomavirus BK (BKV) in the fresh and unstained urine sediment observed by phase-contrast microscopy.