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Annular deposits of amyloid around capillaries of gastric mucosa (200x; A - H + E; B - Congo Red)
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Biopsy specimens from the subcardial area, the body of the stomach and the prepyloric area, on Congo Red staining with the use of a polarised light microscope as well as in fluorescent staining with Thioflavin T, presented deposits of amyloid along the border of the glandular basement membranes and around capillaries of gastric mucosa (Figure 1).
The CT scan - reduced hepatic perfusion in enlarged liver after injection of a contrast medium bolus
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A computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest, abdomen and small pelvis showed a correct lung parenchyma as well as numerous nodulous changes in the thyroid and a substantially enlarged liver with reduced hepatic perfusion after an injection of contrast medium (Figure 2).
Extensive deposits of amyloid between sinusoids and hepatocytes (in the spaces of Disse) with atrophy of hepatocytes (H + E, 100x)
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Disse and inside the vascular wall and connective tissue of the portal tracts (Figure 3). Distorted portal tracts, intensely infiltrated with lymphocytes and plasmocytes, as well as single neutrophil granulocytes, were also noted.