Medical microscopy : a guide to the use of the microscope in medical practice (1898)
Wethered, Frank Joesph, 1860-1928 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 289
e sputum, haematoidin more commonly being found asirregular red particles. Both crystals and fragments arefrequently enclosed in white blood corpuscles. Their presence indicates that blood has lain for sometime in the air passages, or that an abscess has perforatedinto the lungs. They often occur… … Charcot-Leyden Crystals. *%* if the crystals are chiefly free there has most likely been arupture of an abscess from some neighboring organ intothe lung. b. Charcot-Leyden Crystals (Fig. 54).—In thesputum of asthmatic patients these crystals are often foundin large numbers. They are long and…
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