Microscopic examination of sputum in tuberculosis and lung pathology: detection of acid-fast mycobacteria (AFB) and Curschmann's spirals.
🔬✨ Pulmonology and thoracic surgery under the microscope. Acid-fast mycobacteria are frequent “guests” in laboratory smears from these departments.
And in the last photo – a coincidental but very beautiful finding: Curschmann’s spiral. An elegant convoluted mucin thread, appearing in bronchial asthma and bronchial inflammation.
🙏 The publication was kindly provided by Ekaterina Nozdrina, Omsk.
Microscopy of a native sputum smear in bronchial asthma: morphology of Curschmann's spirals from spastic small bronchi, magnification ×20.
Curschmann spirals in sputum: mechanism of bronchiole mucoprotein cast formation, microscopic appearance in bronchial asthma and COPD.
Curschmann spirals in native sputum microscopy: formation mechanism, microphotographs, and clinical significance in bronchial asthma.
