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Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts-nontumor

Infectious (non-viral) disorders

Aspergillus

Reviewers: Komal Arora, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 19 May 2012, last major update May 2012
Copyright: (c) 2004-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

General
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● Infections post-transplant may be important cause of retransplantation, sepsis or death (Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam 2011;41:55)

Gross images
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Post-transplant aspergillosis due to immunosuppression

Micro description
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● Hemorrhagic infarction, vasoinvasive fungi have straight septate hyphal forms with acute angle branching

Micro images
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Hyphal forms with acute angle branching (image on right may not be from liver)

11 year old boy post-chemotherapy for AML

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