Clinical Study
Reactive Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Liver: A Clinicopathological Study of 7 Cases
Table 1
Background data and clinical characteristics of all cases including the reported.
| Background data and clinical characteristics | Variables | Cases |
| Age (Y) | | 15–30 | 1 | 31–60 | 21 | 60–85 | 19 | Sex | | Female | 36 | Male | 5 | Concomitant disease | | Chronic hepatitis | 7 | Sjögren's syndrome | 1 | CREST syndrome | 1 | Autoimmune thyroiditis | 5 | Malignant tumor | 12 | Hepatic hemangioma/FNH | 3 | PBC | 4 | DM | 2 | Immunodeficiency | 2 |
Size in the greatest dimension of lesions (cm) | ⩽4 | 37 | >4 | 4 | Number of lesions | | Solitary | 35 | Multiple | 6 | Location | | Rt. lobe | 21 | Lt. lobe | 13 | Lt. lobe and Rt. lobe | 2 | NA | 5 | Treatment | | Surgical resection | 34 | Transplantation | 2 | CNB and PEI | 1 | CNB and observation | 3 | Autopsy | 1 |
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Rt: right; Lt: left; Seg: segment; NA: not available; PBC: primary biliary cirrhosis; FNH: focal nodular hyperplasia; DM: diabetes mellitus; PEI: percutaneous ethanol injections; CNB: core needle biopsy; NA: not available.
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