STUDIES ON CHARCOT-LEYDEN CRYSTALS

Studies on Charcot-Leyden crystals.

Charcot-Leyden Crystals in Hodgkin's Lym-phoma

Herein, we reported on a middle-aged woman presented with painless cervical lymphadenopathy. Past medical history was not significant. Pathologic examination of incisional biopsy show partial effacement of lymph node architecture with many reactive inflammatory cells admixed with Reed-Sternberg cells, many Charcot-Leyden crystals, and noncaseating granuloma. Immunohistochemical staining was pos...

Charcot-Leyden crystals in a prostatic adenocarcinoma

A transrectal needle biopsy from a 63-year-old man was decided because of a high prostatic specific antigen in the blood, and a hard right lobe in rectal examination. 10 examples were taken from each lobe. In 1 of 4 of the examples from the left lobe, which contained a small focus of adenocarcinoma, numerous eosinophils were observed to surround the carcinomatous focus and attack the carcinoma ...

Acute myeloid leukemia with Charcot-Leyden crystals.

A 70-year-old woman with renovascular hypertension presented with 8 weeks of worsening chest pain, back and leg pain, dyspnea, and fatigue. She had a faint petechial rash on the abdomen and thighs. Complete blood count showed leukocytosis (26.6 109/L), anemia (100 g/L), and thrombocytopenia (114 109/L). Manual differential count revealed 5% myeloblasts, 2% myelocytes, 1% metamyelocytes, 1% eosi...

Charcot-Leyden crystals and Curschmann spirals in asthmatic sputum.

More than a century has elapsed since the microscopic examination of the sputum of asthmatic patients revealed characteristic crystals (so called "asthma crystals") and spirals, which are now referred to respectively as Charcot-Leyden crystals and Curschmann spirals. This paper relates the story of their discovery, the eponymous personalities concerned, the development of our knowledge of these...