Charcot-Leyden crystal

Pathology

• Charcot-Leyden crystals (a product of eosinophil degeneration) may be seen in areas of eosinophil accumulation, for example in respiratory secretion of patients with asthma, eosinophil- associated inflammation in general & some myeloid leukemias
• eosinophil lysophospholipase (Charcot-Leyden crystal protein, CLC) forms the hexagonal bipyramidal crystals, known as Charcot-Leyden crystals

Laboratory

• Charcot-leyden crystals in specimen

More general terms

• abnormal morphologic structure (malformation)

Additional terms

• asthma
• Charcot, J.M.
• Curschmann's spiral
• eosinophil
• lysophospholipase