Clinical Liver Disease

Hepatopathology of hepatitis B - Zachary D. Goodman – Article Reading

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This liver biopsy from a patient with markedly active chronic hepatitis B has considerable chronic portal inflammation, predominantly lymphocytes, which migrate out of the portal tract to surround and destroy adjacent hepatocytes. Review this and other histologic features associated with the active immune response to HBV in Dr. Goodman’s review of hepatopathology of HBV.