Early liver biopsy, intraparenchymal cholestasis, and prognosis in patients with alcoholic steatohepatitis
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- 28 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Gastroenterology
- Vol. 11 (1), 115
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-230x-11-115
Abstract
Alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) is a serious complication of alcoholic liver disease. The diagnosis of ASH requires the association of steatosis, evidence of hepatocellular injury with ballooning degeneration, and polynuclear neutrophil infiltration on liver biopsy. Whether these lesions, in addition to other histological features observed in liver tissue specimens, have prognostic significance is unclear.Keywords
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