corkscrew-like appearance
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Introduction
Clinical manfestations:
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
References
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 20 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2025