Atlas of Histopathology of Liver: Hepatitis and Cirrhosis

摘要

The Atlas focuses attention on acute and chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Representative lesions have been illustrated accompanied by brief textual descriptions. Uncommon forms of cirrhosis, such as pigment cirrhosis and also cirrhosis due to extrahepatic biliary obstruction, etc., have been left out. Liver disease in India has long been known to be different, in some respects, from that in the West, and also from that in the neighboring countries of Africa and Far East. Differences have been observed in the pattern of incidence of the types of cirrhosis and carcinoma and in the nature of the morphological changes in chronic liver disease. Apart from cirrhosis, the clinical course of hepatitis, particularly in children, has some peculiarities. The occurrence of Indian childhood cirrhosis, a disease peculiar to this country, has always been an enigma and a subject of debate regarding its etiology. Interaction between malnutrition, widely prevalent in the country, and different known and unknown factors, such as viral, bacterial, protozoal, and toxic agents has been considered responsible for the patterns of liver disease in infancy, early and late childhood, and in adults.