Liver                                             Chart

                 
Cell types: Adipocyte (fat cell)
 

Differential diagnosis:
This could be confused with parathyroid gland but liver has plates and no cords. The liver is provided with hepatic and portal lobules which are characteristic.

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Diagnostic Features:
a. Tissue is compact (e.g. liver)
b. It consists of glandular tissue judging from rich parenchyma with minimal spaces.
c. It contains plate arrangement of hepatocytes to resemble the wheel spoke of bicycle, this is characteristic.
d. The hepatic lobule is polygonal in shape.

Draw your own section here and make your diagnosis by data base selection below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Database selection: Practical Tissue Gross

Level 1: Select  compact
Level 2: Select organs-glands from list of sclerous, muscular, connective, organ-glands and nervous tissues.
Level 3: Select spacesmedium.
Level 4: Select wheelspoke.

Can you identify the hepatic and portal lobules, the centrilobular and periportal zones of the liver?

 

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