corkscrew-like appearance

Introduction

Clinical manfestations:

• coiled hairs, corkscrew hairs in scurvy

Laboratory

• Campylobacter has characteristic corkscrew-like appearance on bacterial culture

Radiology

• corkscrew collateral formation occurs at sites of arterial occlusion in arteriography of thromboangiitis obliterans
• corkscrew esophagus caused by muliple simultaneous esophageal contractions may be observed in barium swallow ofesophageal spasm

More general terms

• qualifier