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The Morphological Spectrum of Alcoholic Liver Disease

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It is convenient to classify the manifestations of liver disease related to alcoholism into three types: (1) alcoholic fatty liver, (2) alcoholic hepatitis, and (3) cirrhosis. Light microscopic morphologic findings in these three categories, however, may coexist or overlap.1–5 In addition, there is frequently a poor correlation between the clinical, biochemical, and morphological findings in patients with alcohol-related liver injury. Further difficulties in morphologic interpretation arise from the recognition of a variety of clinical settings or entities unrelated to alcohol ingestion that may mimic alcoholic liver disease, and from alterations superimposed on alcohol-related liver injury by causes, such as viral hepatitis, drug-induced hepatotoxicity, and biliary tract obstruction.

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    Lionel Rabin

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Veterans Administration Medical Center, USA

    Leonard B. Seeff M.D. (Chief, Professor of Medicine) (Chief, Professor of Medicine)

  2. Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA

    Leonard B. Seeff M.D. (Chief, Professor of Medicine) (Chief, Professor of Medicine)

  3. Division of Gastroenterology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA

    James H. Lewis M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G. (Associate Professor of Medicine) (Associate Professor of Medicine)

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Rabin, L. (1989). The Morphological Spectrum of Alcoholic Liver Disease. In: Seeff, L.B., Lewis, J.H. (eds) Current Perspectives in Hepatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7041-3_11

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