Veterinary Pathology, Vol 20, Issue 4 410-423, Copyright © 1983 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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Peliosis hepatis-like lesion in aging rats

K. P. Lee

The incidence of peliosis hepatis-like lesions in two-year-old Charles River-CD Sprague-Dawley rats (Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Wilmington, MA) was almost twice as high in males as females. Blood lakes developed from progressive expansion of sinusoids with destruction of the hepatic cell cords. The endothelial processes of the blood lakes had edematous swelling, vesiculation, and denudation. The microvilli of hepatocytes became swollen, blunted, and sloughed where the endothelial processes were disrupted. Subsequently, the hepatocytes were exposed directly to circulating blood cells and had degenerative changes with accumulation of red blood cells in the cytoplasm. The membrane-bound cysts were observed with the blood lakes and were bounded with atrophic hepatocytes or membranous wall extending to the Disse's space of adjacent hepatocytes. The cysts were filled with proteinaceous fluid, fibrin, and a few red blood cells. The wall of membrane-bound cysts consisted of endothelial processes extending from the endothelial cells of adjacent hepatocytes. The wall appeared to develop from adhesion of endothelial processes surrounding sinusoidal spaces of the hepatocytes following lysis of atrophic hepatocytes.
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