Open AccessSignificance of Charcot Leyden crystals in hepatic aspirates
Author(s) -
Vatsala Misra,
Sharmistha Debnath,
Sri Prakash Misra,
Pooja Singh
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.55227
Subject(s) - medicine , fasciola , hepatic abscess , eosinophilic , pathology , eosinophilia , abscess , immunology , helminths , fasciola hepatica , surgery
Charcot Leyden crystals are hexagonal bipyramidal structures localised in the primary granules of the cytoplasm of eosinophils and basophils. Their presence, along with eosinophilic infiltrate, is an indirect evidence of parasitic infestation particularly with Toxocara, Capilliriasis, Ascariasis, or Fasciola. We report here two cases where Charcot Leyden crystals with eosinophilic infiltrate were found in the smears prepared from hepatic abscess.