- pipestem cirrhosis
- a type of cirrhosis seen in hepatic schistosomiasis, characterized by fibrotic scars around the large portal vessels; the fibrosis surrounds parasites or ova trapped in branches of the portal vein.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
pipestem cirrhosis
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