🔬 Creola bodies in sputum. ❗They represent pseudopapillary complexes of ciliated epithelium. Smaller and less mature cells are located in the center, while hyperplastic cells with a ciliary halo are found at the periphery. Cilia in sputum preparations retain their motility for a long time.
✅ Diagnostic significance. The detection of Creola bodies is one of the laboratory signs of bronchial asthma. They can also be found in the sputum of patients with chronic non-specific lung diseases, especially in severe cases of obstructive bronchitis with an asthmatic component.
❓ What classic laboratory signs are found in sputum in bronchial asthma?
🙏 Material kindly provided by Vera Kirnas Biologist, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital named after F.S. Ankudinov
