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===Gross===
===Gross===
Features:<ref>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD922>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
*Well circumscribed, but no capsule.
*Well circumscribed, but no capsule.
*Lighter than surrounding parenchyma, may be yellow.
*Lighter than surrounding parenchyma, may be yellow.
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Note: Usually a solitary lesion.<ref name=emedicine_fnh/>
Note: Usually a solitary lesion.<ref name=emedicine_fnh/>
===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD922>{{Ref PBoD|922}}</ref>
*Stellate scar has large arteries with fibromuscular hyperplasia.
*Stellate scar 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.
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*Hepatic adenoma - may be difficult to distinguish, if no scar and no ductal proliferation.<ref>STC. 19 Jan 2009.</ref>
*Hepatic adenoma - may be difficult to distinguish, if no scar and no ductal proliferation.<ref>STC. 19 Jan 2009.</ref>
*Cirrhosis.
*Cirrhosis.
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Focal_nodular_hyperplasia_-_low_mag.jpg FNH - looks a bit like cirrhosis - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Focal_nodular_hyperplasia_-_intermed_mag.jpg FNH - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Focal_nodular_hyperplasia_-_high_mag.jpg FNH - high mag. (WC)].


==Nodular regenerative hyperplasia==
==Nodular regenerative hyperplasia==
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