Histo features Flashcards

1
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gross of acute viral hepatitis

A

enlarged, reddened liver;

green if cholestatic

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2
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What are the 5 types of parenchymal damage associated w/ viral hepatitis?

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hepatocyte injury;
hepatocyte necrosis;
regenerative changes (hepatocyte proliferation);
sinusoidal cell reactive changes;
portal tracts
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3
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What is indicative of hepatocyte injury? cholestasis? HCV?

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injury: swelling=>ballooning degeneration
cholestasis: canalicular bile plugs;

HCV: mild fatty change of hepatocytes

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4
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What are features of hepatocyte necrosis?

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cytolysis (rupture) or apoptosis (shrink);
bridging necrosis if severe;
lobular disarray w/ loss of architecture

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5
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Describe sinusoidal cell reactive changes in acute viral hep

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accumulation of phagocytosed cellular debris in Kupffer cells;
influx of mononuclear cells into sinusoids

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6
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Descirbe how the portal tracts appear on histo in acute viral hep

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inflammation=> mononuclear;

inflamm spillover into adjacent parenchyma w/ hepatocyte necrosis

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7
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What changes are overlapped in chronic and acute hep?

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hepatocyte injury, necrosis, apoptosis, regeneration;

sinusoidal cell reactive changes

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8
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Describe how the portal tracts appear on histo in chronic viral hep

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inflammation confined to portal tracts or spillover into adjacent parenchyma w/ hepatocyte necrosis;

bridging inflammation and necrosis

fibrosis w/ portal deposition or portal and periportal deposition or formation of bridging fibrous septa

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9
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How does HBV present on histo?

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ground-glass hepatocytes => accumulation of HBsAg

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10
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How does HCV present on histo?

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bile duct epithelial cell proliferation, lymphoid aggregate formation

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11
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moderate intake of alcohol does what to liver?

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hepatic steatosis => small microvesicular

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12
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chronic intake of alcohol does what to liver?

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macrovesicular globules w/ lipid accumulation

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13
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where does hepatic steatosis typically take place?

A

centrilobular

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14
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how does a chronic alcoholic liver look grossly?

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large, soft, yellow, greasy

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15
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presence of what characterizes alcoholic hepatitis?

A

hepatocyte swelling and necrosis;
mallory bodies;
neutrophil infiltration;
fibrosis (sinusoidal & perivenular & periportal)

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16
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where might mallory bodies be seen?

A
alcoholic hepatitis;
primary biliary cirrhosis;
Wilson's; 
chronic cholestatic syndromes;
hepatocellular tumors
17
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At the end of cirrhosis, how does the liver look grossly?

A

shrunken, brown, nonfatty w/ micronodular cirrhosis

18
Q

morphologic finding associated w/ cholestasis

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bland hepatocellular cholestasis w/o inflammation

19
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morphologic finding associated w/ cholestatic hepatitis

A

cholestasis w/ lobular necroinflammatory activity;

may show bile duct destruction

20
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morphologic finding associated w/ hepatocellular necrosis

A

spotty hepatocyte necrosis;
submassive necrosis, zone 3;
massive necrosis

21
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morphologic finding associated w/ steatosis

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macrovesicular

22
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morphologic finding associated w/ steatohepatitis

A

microvesicular, Mallory bodies

23
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morphologic finding associated w/ fibrosis and cirrhosis

A

periportal and pericellular fibrosis

24
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morphologic finding associated w/ granulomas

A

noncaseating epitheliod granulomas

25
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morphologic finding associated w/ vascular lesion

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sinusoida obstruction syndrome (obliteration of central veins);
Budd-Chiari syndrome;
Sinusoidal dilatation;
Peliosis hepatis (blood filled cavities not lined by epithelial cells)

26
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morphologic finding associated w/ neoplasms

A

hepatic adenoma;
HCC;
cholangiocarcinoma;
angiosarcoma

27
Q

Associated agents that may cause cholestasis

A

contraceptive and anabolic steroids;

estrogen replacement therapy

28
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Associated agents that may cause cholestatic hepatitis

A

many ABx;

phenothiazines

29
Q

Associated agents that may cause hepatocellular necrosis and related morphologic damages

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spotty hepatocyte necrosis: methyldoya, phenytoin
zone 3 submassive: acetaminophen, halothane;
massive necrosis: isoniazid, phenytoin

30
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Associated agents that may cause macrovesicular steatosis

A

EtOH;

methotrexate, corticosteroids, total parenteral nutrition

31
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Associated agents that may cause steatohepatitis w/ microvesicular and mallory bodies

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amiodarone, ethanol