Diagnosis: 27-year old male patient, anemic liver infarction
Description: Circumscribed subcapsular yellow necrotic area with wide hemorrhagic border.
Additional findings: Autoimmune granulocytosis.
Clinically: Pure white cell aplasia (Autoimmunae granulocytosis)
Commentary: Generally true infarctions of the liver are very rare, as there is a double blood supply via the hepatic artery and the portal vein. Which means that normally there is only atrophy of the liver parenchyma in the supply area of an occluded portal vein branch. The reason for the anemic infarction in this case was histologically not recognizable.
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