Monday, August 12, 2019
Case of the Week 556
This week's case was donated by Dr. Neil Harris and Dr. Stacy Beal. The patient is an infant with a history of tracheobronchomalacia and "eosinophilia" on prior bronchoscopy. A routine complete blood count was negative without evidence of peripheral eosinophilia. The following structures were seen on a Giemsa-stained bronchoalveolar lavage specimen using the 100x objective. They have a diameter of 1-3 micrometers. Identification?
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The nematodes superficially resembles Dirofilaria sp.
Florida Fan
Curschman spirals
After further examination, I believe Anon is right, there is no organization nor tissue like structure on the object. This leads me to think that the object is more compatible with mucus strands.
Florida Fan
Not a parasite.
Likely a mucous plug, ie. Curschman spiral
BW in VT
there is no organization nor tissue like structure on the object. It's compatible with mucous plug
Spirali di Curschmann
Agree with my predecessors. Appears to be a mucus like structure, compatible with curschmann spirals and the clinical case of the child.
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