A Peculiar Change in the Spleen (Fibrosis Circumscripta Lienis)

Abstract

Fibromas and hemangiomas may occur in the spleen and may scarify or calcify. The assumption of fibroma is supported by the fact that the tumor is quite well circumscribed, that it definitely impresses as a tissual increase and that the histologic structure, the bundle-like, crosswise and vertebra-like arrangement of fibers corresponds to a fibrous tumor. The calcigerous deposits naturally are a secondary phenomenon. Whether it is really a true tumor, namely a fibroma, or only a tumor-like proliferation of the connective tissue (a so called circumscribed fibrosis) this is difficult to decide and a decision is quite impossible in this case. The change could be called 'fibrosis circumscripta lienis,' although this designation gives no clues to the nature of the process, especially its genesis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0845948

Entities

People

  • Gyoergy Haban

Organizations

  • United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

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  • Availability
  • Connective Tissue
  • Contractors
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Export Controls
  • Exports
  • Fibrosis
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Intensity
  • Maryland
  • Tissues
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