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hepatitis B

Tuesday 27 January 2004

Synopsis

chronic hepatitis
ground-glass hepatocytes (ground-glass inclusions)

Variants

acute hepatitis B
chronic hepatitis B

fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis B

Associations

non-Hodgkin lymphoma (RRF=3) (17635237, 17526021)

splenic marginal zone lymphoma (17284308)
hepatosplenic gamma delta T-cell lymphoma (9597812)

See also

viral hepatitis

References

Ganem D, Prince AM. Hepatitis B virus infection—natural history and clinical consequences. N Engl J Med. 2004 Mar 11;350(11):1118-29. PMID: 15014185