Curshmann's spirals are seen in:: (A) Bronchial asthma, (B) Bronchial carcinoid, (C) Chronic bronchitis, (D) All of the above
Answer is A. Ans. a (Bronchial asthma). (Ref. Robbins, Pathology, 7th ed., 726)MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN ASTHMA# Over-inflated over-distended lungs# Creola bodies# Charcot-Leyden crystals# Curshmann's spirals (mucus plugs with whorls of shed epithelium)- Tenacious mucus plugs (most striking finding)- Numerous eosinophils- Airway remodeling.