Term information
A rare vascular liver disease characterized by widespread or focal cystic dilatation of sinusoidal blood-filled spaces of the liver without any known cause. Lesions can vary in diameter between few millimeters and several centimeters. The condition may remain asymptomatic or manifest with complications including rupture and intraperitoneal hemorrhage, hepatomegaly, portal hypertension, cholestasis, and liver failure.
A rare vascular liver disease characterised by widespread or focal cystic dilatation of sinusoidal blood-filled spaces of the liver without any known cause. Lesions can vary in diameter between few millimetres and several centimetres. The condition may remain asymptomatic or manifest with complications including rupture and intraperitoneal haemorrhage, hepatomegaly, portal hypertension, cholestasis, and liver failure.
Term relations
- Idiopathic disease (disorder)
- Peliosis hepatis (disorder)
- Peliosis hepatis (disorder) and Idiopathic disease (disorder) and Role group (attribute) some (
Associated morphology (attribute) some Hemorrhagic cyst (morphologic abnormality) and
Finding site (attribute) some Vascular structure of liver (body structure))