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portal neutrophilic inflammation

Wednesday 25 June 2003

Etiology

 alcoholic hepatitis
 systemic sepsis (extra-hepatic sepsis)
 intra-hepatic sepsis
 large bile-duct obstruction
 any condition with extensive ductular reaction
 ascending cholangitis
 any acute hepatitis

  • drug-related liver injury (drug-related hepatitis)

According to the topography of the neutrophilic infiltration

 localized neutrophilic infitration

  • steatohepatitis
    • alcohol-related steatohepatitis

 lobular microabcesses