[Morphology of alcoholic liver damage].
As a result of the ability to examine successive biopsy specimens, the process of progression of liver damage resulting from ethanol abuse is well appreciated. The ten most important tissue and cellular changes are described in the present paper. The staging system promulgated by the author since 1977 is reviewed: 1) Alcohol-induced liver damage without fibrosis, 2) Alcoholic hepatopathy with fibrosis, 3) Alcoholic hepatopathy with cirrhosis. Staging by this system provides clinically valuable prognostic information. Women with stage 1 changes have a two to threefold liklihood of advancing to stage 3 than do men with the same degree of initial damage.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
Morphologie des alkoholinduzierten Leberschadens.