Pathology of periportal fibrosis involution in human schistosomiasis Patologia da involução da fibrose periportal na esquistossomose humana

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Zilton A. Andrade, Ediriomar Peixoto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1992
• Subjects: Matrix degradation; Fibrosis; Schistosomiasis; Collagen; Chemotherapy; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Ramos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651992000400001; https://doaj.org/article/f5b438a3a867498fb50b5c1ce6189c2c

Optical and electron microscopical evidences of focal matrix degradation were frequently seen in liver sections of periportal fibrosis caused by schistosomiasis mansoni in man. The material came from 14 wedge hepatic biopsies taken from patients with chronic advanced hepatosplenic disease and underg...