[The histo-morphologic patterns of cholestatic hepatosis (author's transl)]

Histologic liver examinations performed in 500 autopsies showed 32 times the incidence of cholestatic hepatosis. Males are affected more commonly than females as our statistic indicates. Furthermore it was shown that chronic alcoholism seems to be a more aggravating cause for hepatosis than a long term treatment with psychopharmacologic drugs. No correlation however was found between the extent of cholestasis and morphologic alterations (inflammation, fatty degeneration, iron storage and necrosis).