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. 2022 Jul 1;9(1):100031.
doi: 10.1016/j.acpath.2022.100031. eCollection 2022.

Educational Case: Evaluating a patient with cirrhosis

Tyler J Reed  1 , Danielle D'Ambrosio  1 , Barbara E C Knollmann-Ritschel  1
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Educational Case: Evaluating a patient with cirrhosis

Tyler J Reed et al. Acad Pathol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Cirrhosis; Hepatic neoplasms; Hepatitis; Hepatobiliary; Liver imaging; Liver laboratory testing; Organ system pathology; Pathology competencies.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Liver biopsy. At low power, the liver biopsy shows steatosis throughout, and inflammation (upper right and middle left). Bands of fibrosis are visible at low power (arrows). H&E, 40x.
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Liver biopsy. At higher power, bands of fibrosis surrounding a nodule are seen (arrows). The hepatocytes contain numerous clear fat droplets, and there is predominantly lymphocytic portal inflammation in the upper right. H&E, 200x
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Liver biopsy. Trichrome stain highlights in blue, the circumferential bands of fibrosis surrounding regenerative nodules. Trichrome stain, 100x.
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