Plexiform lesion

 

 

This section is from a 15 year old obese girl with primary pulmonary hypertension. Plexiform lesions

are glomus-like structures that emerge at right angles from a muscular artery and bulge into a

plexus of channels whose walls consist of fibrous tissue covered by endothelial cells.

 

 

1 minute clinical correlation

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