This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Oncology, Other  • Surgical Oncology  • Diagnosis  • Hepatobiliary Surgery  • Liver/ Biliary Tract/ Pancreatic Diseases  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Arch Surg. 2008;143(8):806.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Answer: Reactive Lymphoid Hyperplasia

The discovery of a macroscopic lymphoproliferative lesion in the liver is an uncommon occurrence, which evokes diagnostic difficulties for the pathologist. Differentiating reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) from low-grade lymphomas may not always be possible on histologic evaluation alone. Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia should not be confused with intrahepatic lymphoid follicles, sometimes seen with well-formed active germinal centers, that can occur in autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, and chronic hepatitis B and C infection.¹ It is also difficult to differentiate from other rare entities, such as ectopic spleen, solitary plasmacytoma, or unicentric Castleman disease (angiofollicular hyperplasia) involving the liver.² Nonneoplastic nodules may include focal nodular hyperplasia, nodular regenerative hyperplasia, compensatory hyperplasia of the liver, pseudonodule of the liver demonstrable by angiography, partial nodular transformation, focal fatty change, cirrhotic large regenerative nodule with variable atypia, anoxic pseudolobular necrosis, intrahepatic bile duct adenoma, biliary and mesenchymal hamartoma, and mesenchymal nodular lesions, such as inflammatory . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION



CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLE

Image of the Month—Quiz Case
Raul Jiménez, Adolfo Beguiristain, Inmaculada Ruiz-Montesinos, Francisco Villar, Miguel A. Medrano, Francisco Garnateo, Manuel Vaquero, and Miguel Echenique Elizondo
Arch Surg. 2008;143(8):805.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT