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TABLE 2

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Liver Pathology: Cirrhosis, Hepatitis, and Primary Liver Tumors. Update and Diagnostic Problems

Linda Ferrell

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TABLE 2. Features of Alcoholic Cirrhosis

Often seen in a micronodular pattern
Mallory hyaline, especially centrilobular
Fatty change
Centrilobular sclerosis
Pericellular, perivenular fibrosis ("chicken-wire" pattern)
Fairly uniform, diffuse process
Paucity of inflammation
Central–central, central–portal bridging prominent

 From Ferrell LD. Liver and gallbladder pathology. In: Weidner N, editor. The difficult diagnosis in surgical pathology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; 1996. p. 285. Reprinted with permission.

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