Other Body Fluids (Coderes)

Question 1

T/F: Sputum is nonsterile.

Answer 1

True. Sputum = URT + LRT secretions

Question 2

Most preferred sputum collection

Answer 2

Sputum

Question 3

Yellow sputum

Answer 3

⬆️ Pus (TB, bronchitis, jaundice, pneumonia)

Question 4

Bright green/ish sputum

Answer 4

⬆️ Bile, P. aeruginosa, lung abscess

Question 5

Red/bright red sputum

Answer 5

Hemorrhage

Question 6

Anchovy sauce or rusty brown sputum

Answer 6

Old blood, pneumonia, gangrene

Question 7

Olive/grass green sputum

Answer 7

Cancer

Question 8

Rusty with pus sputum

Answer 8

Lobar pneumonia

Question 9

Rusty sputum

Answer 9

Congestive heart failure (CHF)

Question 10

Currant, jelly like sputum

Answer 10

K. pneumoniae

Question 11

Yellow/gray material, pinhead size
Foul odor when crushed
Bronchial asthma

Answer 11

Dittrich’s plugs

Question 12

Hard concretion
Calcified TB structures
Histoplamosis

Answer 12

Pneumoliths/Bronchiliths

Question 13

Layer formation of sputum

Answer 13

1. Frothy mucus
2. Opaque, water material
3. Pus, bacteria, tissues

Question 14

Double contour and curled ends

Tuberculosis

Answer 14

Elastic fibers

Question 15

Double pyramid, often needle like
Disintegration of eosinophils
Bronchial asthma

Answer 15

Charcot leyden crystals

Question 16

Coiled mucus strands

Bronchial asthma

Answer 16

Curschmann’s spirals

Question 17

Colorless globules

Mistaken as Blastomyces

Answer 17

Myelin globules

Question 18

Cluster of columnar cells

Bronchial asthma

Answer 18

Creola bodies

Question 19

Bronchial asthma:

Answer 19

Dittrich’s plug
Charcot leyden crystals
Curschmann’s spirals
Creola bodies

Question 20

Migatrating larva (heart/lung)

Answer 20

Ascaris (round)
Strongyloides (thread)
Hookworm
ASH

Question 21

Diagnostic test for P. carnii / P. jiroveci

Answer 21

Broncoalveolar lavage (BAL)