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Curschmann's Spirals in Sputum: Microscopic Findings

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0300

Curschmann’s spiral in a patient’s sputum‼️ One, but very large. The first photo is x20 magnification, subsequent ones are x40.

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

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

Curschmann's Spirals in Sputum: COPD and Pneumonia

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0300

A man with pneumonia. He has suffered from COPD for more than 10 years, experiencing shortness of breath and cough with minimal physical exertion. Material - sputum. Curschmann’s spirals.

Curschmann's Spirals in Native Sputum Preparation

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0300

Curschmann’s spiral. Native sputum preparation. Pulmonology. 40x magnification. Patient with pneumonia, HIV-infected.

🙏 The 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.

Curshmann's Spirals in Native Sputum Smear: A Case Study

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:05:45 +0300

Huge Curshmann’s spirals in a native sputum smear. Male, 80 years old, chronic bronchitis. Photos 1-4: 100x magnification, photo 5: 400x magnification, photo 6: no magnification (spirals are visible to the naked eye, do not disintegrate when pressing on the coverslip).

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.

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.

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

Curschmann's Spirals in Sputum: Microscopic Appearance

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:00:01 +0300

Curschmann’s spiral in sputum.

Native preparation 100x
Romanowsky-Giemsa stained *200x

Images kindly provided by Anna Alekseevna, Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Physician, S. P. Botkin City Clinical 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.