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In the past, appearance of alcoholic hyalin was reported to be confined to liver cells and pancreatic alcoholic hylina have never been reported elsewhere.
The author examined the pancreas of about 100 autopsy cases of alcoholics and detected hyaline bodies in the exocrine cells of the pancreas in 9 cases. In addition to similar shape and stainability, these hyaline bodies were electron microscopically identical with alcoholic hyalin in the liver cells, and might be called alcoholic hyalin of exocrine cells of the pancreas.
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Kojima, K. Alcoholic hyalin in the exocrine cells of the pancreas. Gastroenterol Jpn 8, 225–228 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02779903
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