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Now compare the liver in your patient to a normal. Sorry no gross images here!
The location of inflammatory cells can also help you determine the type of pathology you are seeing.
Where is the inflammation in your patient?
Are their other clues that help you determine what is going on here?
On the next page, compare the location of the inflammation in the liver from a different patient.
Your patient has acute viral hepatitis. Note that there is both periportal and significant interstitial inflammation (mostly with lymphocytes). There is also acidophil apoptosis (remember from lab 1?). These are all classic signs of viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, F?, and G). In acute viral hepatitis, the infection of hepatocytes results in the migration of cytotoxic T lymphocytes into the parenchyma.