Mallory Bodies in Liver Biopsies from Chronic Alcoholics

Abstract

Christoffersen, P., Eghöje, K. & Juhl, E. 1973. Mallory Bodies in Liver Biopsies from Chronic Alcoholics. A Comparative Morphological, Biochemical, and Clinical Study of Two Groups of Chronic Alcoholics with and without Mallory Bodies. Scand. J. Gastroent. 8, 341-346.

Two groups of liver biopsies, one with and one without Mallory bodies, are compared morphologically, and the corresponding groups of patients are compared biochemically and with regard to daily ethanol consumption. Both the morphological and the biochemical activity is greater in the group with Mallory bodies, and the results presented render a connection between alcohol abuse of long duration combined with the consumption of hard types of alcohol and the development of Mallory bodies possible, just as the number of Mallory bodies to a certain degree is proportional to the daily consumption of alcohol.

Key-words::

• Alcohol consumption
• Mallory bodies