Clinicopathological features of nine cases of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension: Current definitions and criteria are inadequate

Histopathology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 251-264

  Ibarrola, C ^a   Colina, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Focal nodular hyperplasia; Idiopathic portal hypertension; Incomplete septal cirrhosis; Partial nodular transformation; Regenerative nodular hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; CARBIDOPA; DIURETIC AGENT; LEVODOPA; MELPHALAN; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HYPERPLASIA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MALE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NOMENCLATURE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; TISSUE SECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037346869     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.2003.01586.x     Document Type: Article

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