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hepatic sinusoids

Components:
- Kupffer?s cells
- endothelial cells
- reticulin fibers

Anomalies:

- hepatic sinusoidal dilatation
- hepatic sinusoidal aggregation of red cells (sickled)
- hepatic sinusoidal thrombi
- hepatic sinusoidal occlusion
- sinusoidal erythrophagocytosis
- peliosis (spaces of disse)
- alterations in lining cells (Kupffer?s cells)
- hepatic sinusoidal abnormal contents (amyloid, freign cells, fibrosis)

Examination

- width ?

  • dilatation ? congestion ?

- alterations in lining cells ?

- abnormal contents ?

  • amyloid ?
  • foreign cells ?
  • fibrosis ?