Classic Lectures in Pathology: What You Need to Know: Liver Pathology – A Video CME Teaching Activity

• Explain the criteria for the primary histologic features utilized to grade steatohepatitis.
• Recognize the key histologic features useful in the diagnosis of focal nodular hyperplasia, hepatocellular adenoma and well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Discuss the clinical, laboratory, genetic and histologic features necessary to properly evaluate metabolic liver diseases, including Wilson’s disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and hemochromatosis.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis of granulomas in the liver.
• Develop an understanding of the characteristic histologic features that allow clear separation of the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns.
• Develop an understanding of the normal histology of the intrahepatic biliary system and how it is affected by a variety of cholestatic liver diseases.
• Develop an understanding of the utility of clinical history and laboratory findings in averting misinterpretation of histologic findings in medical liver biopsies.