title: Liver biopsy diagnosis of hepatitis: clues to clinically-meaningful reporting.
abstract: The focus of this review is on "hepatitis"; diagnostic considerations of common adult medical liver diseases are presented, including chronic hepatitis C and B, autoimmune hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, drug-induced liver injury, and chronic cholestatic liver diseases. Processing, protocol stains, and final reporting of findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA. ebrunt@path.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Brunt
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000379:methods; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
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