RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Portal hypertension caused by partial nodular transformation of the liver
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 245
OP 249
DO 10.1136/gut.11.3.245
VO 11
IS 3
A1 M. Classen
A1 K. Elster
A1 H. J. Pesch
A1 L. Demling
YR 1970
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/11/3/245.abstract
AB The course of the disease in, and the necropsy on, a 46-year-old woman with partial nodular transformation of the liver are described. This is, as far as is known, the fifth case to be reported. On the basis of results obtained from clinical tests partial nodular transformation of the liver was assumed. Seven months after the first episode of haematemesis and after numerous haemorrhages, the patient died. The morphological picture of the liver confirmed the tentative diagnosis. In spite of opinions to the contrary (Ingelfinger, 1967), the clinical picture of portal hypertension, can, by reason of the morphological findings, be clearly differentiated from hepatic cirrhosis and other nodular changes in the liver.