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Curschmann's Spirals in Sputum in Bronchial Asthma

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:01 +0300

Curschmann’s spiral in a native sputum smear from a patient with bronchial asthma. Objective ×20

🙏 The publication was kindly provided by Alexey Degtyarev

Creola Bodies in Sputum in Bronchial Asthma

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Creola bodies in a native sputum smear. Magnification x40. Patient from the pulmonology department. Creola bodies are clusters of columnar alveolar epithelium in bronchial asthma. They are often considered an unfavorable sign. This patient, in principle, had a large number of columnar epithelial cells, some of which clumped together into such “clumps”. Often, cilia are still present at the edges of Creola bodies; in a native smear under a coverslip, it is often visible how they perform their ciliary movements.

Charcot-Leyden Crystals in Native Sputum Preparations

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:30:27 +0300

Colorless Charcot-Leyden crystals in a native sputum preparation 😍

🙏 This publication was kindly provided by Ekaterina Nozdrina, Omsk.

Acid-Fast Mycobacteria and Curschmann's Spirals in Sputum

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:59:00 +0300

🔬✨ 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.

Curschmann Spirals in Sputum: Microscopy and Diagnosis

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0300

Curschmann spirals in a sputum sample.

Curschmann spirals are twisted mucoprotein structures formed in small bronchi due to hypersecretion of mucus and impaired clearance. They are more common in chronic inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract (e.g., bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis).

Curschmann Spirals in Sputum Analysis: Diagnostic Value

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:16:13 +0300

🔬 Curschmann Spirals. Native sputum preparation. 40x magnification.

Curschmann spirals form during spastic conditions of the bronchi and the presence of mucus within them. During a cough, viscous mucus is expelled into the lumen of a larger bronchus, coiling into a spiral. Curschmann spirals appear in bronchial asthma, bronchitis, and lung tumors that compress the bronchi.

Creola Bodies in Native Sputum Microscopy: Diagnostic Value

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0300

🔬 Creola Bodies. Native sputum smear. 🙏 Video kindly provided by biologist Anna Feditskaya, Lugansk.

📘 Reference information: ✅ Creola bodies are clusters of damaged bronchial epithelial cells. Most often, they are found in bronchial asthma and other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract.

Curschmann Spirals in Sputum: Native Smear Microscopy

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:02:16 +0300

🔬 Curschmann spiral in sputum, native smear 🌀 🙏 Photo kindly provided by KDL biologist Yulia Guseva, Belorechenskaya Central District Hospital.

Charcot-Leyden Crystals in Sputum: Microscopic Examination

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:00:01 +0300

🔬 Native sputum smear, 100x magnification; 40x; + phone camera magnification. Charcot-Leyden crystals. They appear as shiny, smooth, colorless rhomboids of various sizes, sometimes with blunt ends. Their formation is associated with the breakdown of eosinophils. The presence of these crystals in sputum is characteristic of bronchial asthma, eosinophilic bronchitis, helminthic lung lesions, and less commonly, croupous pneumonia and various forms of bronchitis.

Creola Bodies in Sputum Analysis for Bronchial Asthma

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0300

🔬 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.

Curschmann Spirals in Native Sputum Preparation

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0300

Curschmann spirals in native sputum preparation.

🙏Images kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, F.S. Ankudinov Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital

Sputum Microscopy: Elastic Fibers and Curschmann's Spirals

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0300

🔬Sputum. The first photo shows elastic fibers. The second photo shows a Curschmann’s spiral. ❓What is the clinical significance of these findings?

👉Material kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Oksana Vladislavovna Kadantseva.