Hepatic granulomas: A clinicopathologic analysis of 86 cases

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 359-365

  Turhan, Nesrin ^a   Kurt, Mevlut ^a   Ozderin, Yasemin Ozin ^a   Kurt, Ozlem Kar ^b  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Ataturk Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Drug; Hepatic granuloma; Infection; Malignancy; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER GRANULOMA; LIVER STRUCTURE; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOIDOSIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SARCOIDOSIS; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958729031     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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