Drugs can induce various vascular and sinusoidal lesions of the liver,
in particular hepatic vein thrombosis, veno-occlusive disease, sinusoidal
dilatation, peliosis hepatis, hepatoportal sclerosis and angiosarcoma.
None of these lesions is specific of drug-induced injury and all of them
can be determined by causes other than drugs. However, for one of these
lesions, veno-occlusive disease, chemotherapy (and/or irradiation) represents
the main aetiology.
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