Case Report

Portal Hypertension, Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia of the Liver, and Obstructive Portal Venopathy due to Metastatic Breast Cancer

Figure 2

(a) Postmortem liver with nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH). The cut surface demonstrates small nodules <3 mm in size without surrounding fibrosis. The portal tract at the arrow is enlarged in (b). The ruler is in centimeters. (b) The small regenerative nodules of NRH are apparent. The portal tract at center shows a putty-like tumor thrombus of breast carcinoma within the portal vein branch (arrow).
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