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CLINICS IN LIVER DISEASE
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 577-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cld.2010.07.003
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Autoimmune hepatitis; Overlap syndrome; Chronic hepatitis; Autoimmune liver disease; Histology; Biopsy
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Autoimmune hepatitis does not have a pathognomonic feature and its laboratory serologic and histologic manifestations are shared with a variety of acute and chronic liver diseases The disease has active and quiescent phases and thus variable histologic appearances This article outlines the many histologic faces of autoimmune hepatitis It discusses the fulminant and acute forms as well as the chronic hepatitic forms Overlap syndromes with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis are described The role of the pathologist in reporting the biopsies is discussed
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