Difference between revisions of "Medical liver disease"

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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD922>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD922>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
*Stellate scar has large arteries with fibromuscular hyperplasia.
*Classically a stellate scar that has large arteries with fibromuscular hyperplasia.
**Thin fibrous septa radiate from the central scar - surrounded by lymphocytes & bile ductules.
**Thin fibrous septa radiate from the central scar - surrounded by lymphocytes & bile ductules.
***Normal hepatocytes between fibrous septae.
***Normal hepatocytes between fibrous septae.
Practical features:
#Thick walled blood vessels.
#*Bile duct of same size not seen.
#Bile ductular proliferation at the edge of the fibrosis tissue.
#Clinical history: it is a focal lesion.


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*Cirrhosis - complete nodules  
*Cirrhosis - complete nodules  
**FNH has incomplete nodules.
**FNH has incomplete nodules.
Memory device ''FNH'' = '''f'''ocal lesion, '''n'''umerous bile ductules, '''h'''yperplasia of arteries.


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