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Histological features in liver biopsy specimens of patients with acute reactivation of chronic type B hepatitis
Author(s) -
VILLARI D.,
RAIMONDO G.,
BRANCATELLI S.,
LONGO G.,
RODINÒ G.,
SMEDILE V.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.1991.tb00817.x
Subject(s) - medicine , exacerbation , liver biopsy , chronic hepatitis , biopsy , pathology , hepatitis , infiltration (hvac) , acute hepatitis , lymphocytic infiltration , virus , immunology , physics , thermodynamics
The histological features in liver biopsy specimens from seven patients with acute exacerbation of chronic type B hepatitis were analysed. In all the cases typical changes of acute hepatitis were superimposed on signs of chronicity, namely peripheral piecemeal necrosis, plasma cell infiltration and porto‐portal bridges, which in three cases contained elastic fibres. Reactivation of silent hepatitis B virus chronic infection should be considered as a possible diagnosis in any patient with histological findings of acute and chronic hepatitis.