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hepatic sinusoids
Wednesday 28 May 2003
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 ?
- endothelial cells ?
- Kupffer cells ?
abnormal contents ?
- amyloid ?
- foreign cells ?
- fibrosis ?
