Definition: Hypertrophy refers to an increase in the size of cells, resulting in an increase in the size of the organ.
Pathogenesis
The hypertrophied organ has no new cells, just larger cells. The increased size of the cells is due not to cellular swelling but to the synthesis of more structural components.
Cells capable of division may respond to stress by undergoing both hyperplasia and hypertrophy, whereas in nondividing cells (e.g., myocardial fibers), hypertrophy occurs.
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Microscopical anomalies
Elementary lesions; microscopical lesions
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hypertrophy
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metaplasia
11 July 2003Definition: Metaplasia is the reversible replacement of one differentiated cell type with another differentiated cell type.
Metaplasia causes precursor cells to change their cell fate, and do not change existing differentiated cells.
Metaplasia is reversible and usually occurs in response to chronic irritation and inflammation and allows for substitution of cells that are better able to survive under circumstances in which a more fragile cell type might succumb.
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colonic cryptitis
29 May 2004colonic glandulitis
Etiology (Examples)
IBDs Crohn colitis ulcerative colitis
acute colitis infectious colitis
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bridging necrosis
27 January 2004Definition: Bridging necrosis is the term given to confluent necrosis linking terminal venules to portal tracts. The term "Bridging necrosis" has been used for necrosis linking any of the vascular structures, but it is now more often restricted to the linking of terminal hepatic venules (centrilobular veins) to portal tracts (central-portal bridging necrosis).
Bridging necrosis describes the location rather than the type of necrosis. It usually results from extensive necrosis of confluent (...) -
abscess
9 June 2004abcesses
Definition: Abscesses are localized collections of purulent inflammatory tissue caused by suppuration buried in a tissue, an organ, or a confined space. They are produced by deep seeding of pyogenic bacteria into a tissue.
Abscesses have a central region that appears as a mass of necrotic leukocytes and tissue cells. There is usually a zone of preserved neutrophils around this necrotic focus, and outside this region vascular dilation and parenchymal and fibroblastic proliferation (...) -
vesicular parietal fibrosis
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sinusoidal erythrophagocytosis
31 May 2003Images
hepatic erythrophagocytosis in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis https://twitter.com/GIPathologyURMC/status/889533077118214144
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sinusoidal aggregation of red cells
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lobular pericellular fibrosis
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hepatocellular cholestasis
1 June 2003cellular cholestasis