Mallory bodies

Large, poorly defined accumulations of eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm of damaged hepatic cells in certain forms of cirrhosis and marked fatty change especially due to alcoholism.

Synonym: alcoholic hyalin, alcoholic hyaline bodies.

(05 Mar 2000)


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