title: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: what's new under the microscope?
abstract: Pathologist's observations have remained central to the evolution of the field of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, even with the advent of increasingly effective non-invasive markers of advanced fibrosis. As the field matures, the role of pathology has also shifted from being largely descriptive to being confirmatory and diagnostic, as well as providing semi-quantitative evaluation of specific findings, particularly in therapeutic interventional trials. Some newly appreciated histopathological findings will be discussed in this review.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. ebrunt@path.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Brunt
mesh_terms: D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods*; D065626:Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; D015203:Reproducibility of Results