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Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congestive_hepatopathy_high_mag.jpg Congestive hepatopathy (WC)].
Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congestive_hepatopathy_high_mag.jpg Congestive hepatopathy (WC)].


==Drug toxicity==
==Drug-induced liver disease==
*Can do almost anything; may include: [[granulomata]], bile duct loss, cholestasis, ischemic type injury.
*Drugs can do almost anything; may include: [[granulomata]], bile duct loss, cholestasis, ischemic type injury.
*Effects can be delayed -- temporal relationship not always obvious.
*Effects can be delayed -- temporal relationship not always obvious.


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**+/-[[Granuloma]]s.
**+/-[[Granuloma]]s.


===Common===
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drug-induced_hepatitis_low_mag.jpg Drug-induced hepatitis - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drug-induced_hepatitis_intermed_mag.jpg Drug-induced hepatitis - intermed. mag. (WC)].
 
===Specific patterns===
Acute hepatits:
Acute hepatits:
*Related to Rx - most often antibiotics.
*Related to Rx - most often antibiotics.


[[Steatohepatitis]]/[[steatosis]]:<ref name=pmid16237810>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Grieco | first1 = A. | last2 = Forgione | first2 = A. | last3 = Miele | first3 = L. | last4 = Vero | first4 = V. | last5 = Greco | first5 = AV. | last6 = Gasbarrini | first6 = A. | last7 = Gasbarrini | first7 = G. | title = Fatty liver and drugs. | journal = Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci | volume = 9 | issue = 5 | pages = 261-3 | month =  | year =  | doi =  | PMID = 16237810 }}</ref>
*Amiodarone - cardiac arrhythmias.
*Tamoxifen - breast cancer.
*Carbamazepine - seizures.
===Specific drugs===
Acetaminophen:
Acetaminophen:
*Zone 3 necrosis.
*Zone 3 necrosis.
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**Nuclear atypia (hyperchromasia, pleomorphism, vacuolation).
**Nuclear atypia (hyperchromasia, pleomorphism, vacuolation).
***Described as just nuclear size variation by some.<ref>MG. 23 September 2009.</ref>
***Described as just nuclear size variation by some.<ref>MG. 23 September 2009.</ref>
Steatohepatitis/steatosis:<ref name=pmid16237810>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Grieco | first1 = A. | last2 = Forgione | first2 = A. | last3 = Miele | first3 = L. | last4 = Vero | first4 = V. | last5 = Greco | first5 = AV. | last6 = Gasbarrini | first6 = A. | last7 = Gasbarrini | first7 = G. | title = Fatty liver and drugs. | journal = Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci | volume = 9 | issue = 5 | pages = 261-3 | month =  | year =  | doi =  | PMID = 16237810 }}</ref>
*Amiodarone - cardiac arrhythmias.
*Tamoxifen - breast cancer.
*Carbamazepine - seizures.


==Focal nodular hyperplasia==
==Focal nodular hyperplasia==
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