Liver & intrahepatic bile ducts

Benign / nonneoplastic

Extramedullary hematopoiesis



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PubMed Search: Extramedullary hematopoiesis[TI] liver


Shilpa Jain, M.D.
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Cite this page: Jain S. Extramedullary hematopoiesis. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/livertumorEMH.html. Accessed March 28th, 2024.
Definition / general
  • Usually discovered incidentally or associated with anemia
  • Rarely presents as liver mass
  • Only very few liver nodules of EMH have been described in the literature (Diagn Cytopathol 1997;16:51)
Case reports
Treatment
  • Radiation or hydroxyurea if symptomatic
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Erythroid precursors in sinusoids (resemble lymphocytes), myeloid precursors in portal tracts (resemble mixed portal infiltrate or eosinophils in neonates)
  • Also megakaryocytes within sinuses
Microscopic (histologic) images

Contributed by S. Rajendiran, M.D., Nikhil Sangle, M.D. and ARUP Laboratories

50 year old man with vague abdominal pain; CT abdomen showed a 2 cm mass; CT guided biopsy performed

Liver with extramedullary hematopoiesis



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