Hepatitis and Liver Failure in Infancy and Childhood

摘要: Hepatitis in intrauterine and early postnatal life usually has different causes clinical features than hepatitic processes experienced by older children adults. The histologic of neonatal hepatitis childhood are often significantly those observed patients. Because these themselves frequently not diagnostic any one liver disease, the pathologist must be familiar with all potential able to suggest additional testing modalities, such as assays metabolic enzymes, determination specific metabolite levels, or ultrastructural examination, that may allow for a definitive diagnosis. In children, differential diagnosis overlaps greater extent adult patients, detailed discussion conditions is beyond scope this chapter.