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Case n° 5 ( B 00 / 7264 )


CLINICAL INFORMATION :

72 year-old woman. HCV+ ==> autoimmune hepatitis + Medrol
A present : HCV reactivation with Medrol to exclude


HISTOLOGY :

  • 10-12 portal triads ==> OK
  • Preserved lobular pattern with one fibrous septum (Fig. 15)
  • Focal " piece meal necrosis " (Fig. 16) and eosinophilic discrete condensation of few intralobular hepatocytes (Fig. 17)
  • Discrete focal, macrovesicular steatosis (Fig. 17)
  • Viral C chronic hepatitis
    Moderate activity
    Mild portal fibrosis with one fibrous septum
    (Metavir A2F2)


  

  
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