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Lecture topics
- Steatotic liver disease: An umbrella concept
- Macrovesicular and microvesicular patterns
- Morphologic findings: What each establishes
- Alcohol-associated disease engages the gut–liver axis
- Biochemistry can support—but not prove—etiology
- Lipophagy is a second lipid-clearance mechanism
- Imaging and biopsy answer different questions
- Source and interpretation notes
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Slide 1 · Steatotic Liver Disease
An integrated pathologic framework for alcohol- and metabolism-associated injury
Alcohol-associated injury
Metabolic dysfunction
Dr Abu Suraih Sakhri
MBBS, MD (Pathology)
www.abusuraihsakhri.com
Slide 2 · Learning objectives
Distinguish hepatic steatosis, steatohepatitis and progressive fibrosis.
Explain why alcohol exposure and insulin resistance produce overlapping injury patterns.
Recognize the key morphologic features and their clinicopathologic significance.
Explain why etiologic classification requires clinical information in addition to histology.
Slide 3 · Steatotic liver disease: An umbrella concept
The Robbins section groups alcohol-associated liver disease and MASLD because their morphologic patterns overlap.
The same biopsy patterns can result from different or coexisting etiologic drivers.
The initiating exposure, systemic context and disease stage are therefore essential for interpretation.
Alcohol-associated liver disease
Shared hepatic lesions
Metabolic dysfunction–associated SLD
Schematic conceptual relationship
Slide 4 · Common morphologic spectrum
Simple steatosis
Steatohepatitic injury
Progressive fibrosis
Cirrhosis
These categories overlap: Fibrosis may coexist with ongoing hepatocellular injury.
This is a teaching continuum—not a claim that every patient passes through all stages.
Slide 5 · Two major etiologic contexts
Alcohol-associated disease
Ethanol metabolism changes hepatocyte redox balance.
Acetaldehyde, CYP2E1 induction and gut-derived inflammatory signaling add injury.
Exposure and host susceptibility influence disease severity.
Metabolic dysfunction–associated disease
Insulin resistance and dysfunctional adipose tissue increase hepatic lipid burden.
Oxidative stress and cytokine signaling promote injury and scarring.
Cardiometabolic comorbidity is central to classification.
Slide 6 · Shared injury versus differing initiating factors
Shared microscopic lesions
Steatosis and ballooned hepatocytes.
Lobular inflammatory infiltrates and cell death.
Pericellular/perisinusoidal fibrosis progressing to cirrhosis.
Different clinical evidence
Pattern and quantity of alcohol consumption.
Obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes or dyslipidemia.
Other potential chronic liver diseases and exposures.
Histology describes the injury; History and evaluation identify the likely cause.
Slide 7 · Overlap includes combined alcohol and metabolic risk
Alcohol-related injury and MASLD may coexist rather than being mutually exclusive.
Robbins recognizes an overlap category termed MetALD for MASLD with increased alcohol intake.
Concomitant viral infection, iron overload or other liver injury can amplify fibrosis risk.
Metabolic risk
Alcohol exposure
Combined hepatic risk
Schematic conceptual overlap
Slide 8 · Why a histologic diagnosis is not enough
Steatohepatitis is a pattern of hepatocellular injury, not a unique etiologic signature.
Neutrophils and Mallory hyaline may favor alcohol-associated injury, but are not exclusive.
An integrated diagnosis combines biopsy findings with alcohol, metabolic and other clinical information.
Do not diagnose alcohol causation solely from a characteristic-looking biopsy.
Slide 9 · Acinar zonation helps localize injury
Zone 3 is the centrilobular/perivenular region of the hepatic acinus.
Alcohol-associated changes characteristically begin in zone 3 and extend outward.
Early perisinusoidal fibrosis in steatohepatitis is often centered in this region.
CV
Zone 3
Zone 2
Zone 1
Portal
CV = central vein; Alcohol-associated injury begins near zone 3
Simplified acinar axis (not a scaled anatomical diagram)
Slide 10 · Gross appearance of fatty liver
With substantial fat accumulation, the liver may be enlarged, soft, yellow and greasy.
The source describes severe hepatomegaly in long-standing alcohol-associated steatosis.
Gross appearance indicates steatosis but does not independently identify its cause.
Slide 11 · Macrovesicular steatosis: Nuclear displacement
Large lipid vacuoles expand the cytoplasm and displace the nucleus peripherally.
Small droplets may merge into one dominant vacuole within a hepatocyte.
Macrovesicular change predominates in alcohol-associated liver disease.
Schematic — not a histologic specimen
Slide 12 · Macrovesicular and microvesicular patterns
Macrovesicular steatosis
Large optically empty vacuole; Eccentric, compressed nucleus.
Common pattern in alcohol-related disease and MASLD.
Often prominent within a centrilobular distribution.
Small-droplet / microvesicular change
Many smaller fat droplets may occupy the cytoplasm.
Alcohol-associated foamy degeneration is a rare exception to the usual macrovesicular pattern.
Patterns require careful morphologic description.
Slide 13 · Lipid accumulation can precede cell injury
Increased lipid delivery or synthesis
Hepatocyte triglyceride storage
Steatosis
Additional stress → injury
Steatosis alone is not synonymous with steatohepatitis.
In alcohol-associated disease, early fatty change can regress with abstinence.
Slide 14 · Ballooning signifies hepatocellular injury
Ballooned hepatocytes are enlarged, with rarefied or cleared cytoplasm.
The appearance is associated with cytoskeletal disruption and cell injury.
Ballooning is central to recognizing steatohepatitic injury in both etiologic settings.
Schematic — not a histologic specimen
Slide 15 · Mallory hyaline reflects cytoskeletal injury
Mallory hyaline consists of aggregated, partially degraded and ubiquitinated cytokeratins.
Keratins 8 and 18 in these inclusions.
These inclusions can accompany ballooned hepatocytes but are not specific for alcohol-associated disease.
Cytoskeletal stress
Keratins 8/18 aggregate
Mallory hyaline
Schematic; Not a microscopic depiction
Slide 16 · Inflammation in steatohepatitis
Lobular injury
Lobular inflammatory foci accompany steatosis and ballooning.
Macrophages and lymphocytes participate in the injury pattern.
Spotty apoptosis or necrosis may be present.
Alcohol-associated tendency
Neutrophils are often more conspicuous than in MASH.
Neutrophils may cluster near ballooned cells with Mallory hyaline.
The degree of inflammation alone is not a definitive etiologic test.
Slide 17 · Cell death extends beyond fat storage
Metabolic and oxidative stresses can damage hepatocyte plasma and mitochondrial membranes.
Steatohepatitis may show spotty hepatocyte necrosis or apoptosis.
Progressive injury activates inflammatory and wound-healing responses.
Oxidative / cellular stress
Cell injury and death
Inflammatory response
Schematic sequence
Slide 18 · Pericellular fibrosis: “chicken wire” pattern
Fine perisinusoidal collagen surrounds individual or clustered hepatocytes.
Early fibrosis is frequently concentrated around zone 3 and central venules.
A connective-tissue stain such as Masson trichrome can help demonstrate delicate fibrosis.
Zone 3 pericellular
Portal / periportal
Bridging → cirrhosis
Schematic fibrosis sequence
Slide 19 · Fibrosis changes the architecture of the liver
Pericellular / perivenular fibrosis
Portal or periportal fibrosis
Bridging septa
Cirrhosis
The sequence summarizes typical progression described for steatohepatitis.
Established cirrhosis includes nodularity and deranged vascular perfusion.
Slide 20 · Burned-out disease may lose its fat
In advanced cirrhosis, visible steatosis and ballooning may be diminished or absent.
Historical metabolic or alcohol-associated exposure may remain crucial to etiologic attribution.
Absence of current steatosis does not exclude steatotic disease as the initiating process.
Zone 3 pericellular
Portal / periportal
Bridging → cirrhosis
Schematic fibrosis sequence
Slide 21 · Morphologic findings: What each establishes
Finding
Morphologic significance
Limitation
Steatosis
Hepatic fat storage
Not etiologically specific
Ballooning
Hepatocellular damage
Not exclusive to alcohol or MASH
Lobular inflammation
Active inflammatory injury
Inflammatory intensity overlaps
Pericellular fibrosis
Chronic wound-healing response
Stage, not a unique cause
Slide 22 · Interpretation pitfall: Pattern versus diagnosis
An observed histologic lesion is not equivalent to a complete clinical disease classification.
Steatohepatitis can coexist with viral, toxic or inherited liver disease.
Morphology, exposure history, metabolic profile and exclusion of alternative causes must be integrated.
Slide 23 · Alcohol-associated disease comprises overlapping forms
Alcohol-associated steatosis
Alcohol-associated hepatitis
Fibrosis / cirrhosis
These lesions can coexist in the same liver.
Some patients present with cirrhosis without earlier stages being clinically recognized.
Slide 24 · Ethanol metabolism shifts hepatic redox balance
Ethanol oxidation
Generation of excess NADH
Altered hepatocyte redox state
Triglyceride accumulation
Ethanol metabolism by alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases increases NADH production.
The resulting metabolic imbalance favors lipid retention.
Slide 25 · How altered redox balance promotes steatosis
Less lipid disposal
Raised NADH suppresses fatty acid oxidation.
Reduced oxidative disposal leaves more substrate for storage.
Triglycerides accumulate in hepatocyte vacuoles.
More hepatic lipogenesis
Alcohol increases expression of lipogenic enzymes.
Peripheral lipid mobilization can increase hepatic lipid supply.
Impaired lipoprotein secretion may amplify retention.
Slide 26 · Lipoprotein export is another point of failure
The amount of hepatic lipid depends on input, synthesis, oxidation and export.
Alcohol may impair assembly and secretion of lipoproteins.
This effect can act together with increased synthesis and reduced oxidation to cause steatosis.
More input / synthesis
Less oxidation / export
Net lipid storage
Simplified lipid balance
Slide 27 · Acetaldehyde causes more than metabolic change
Acetaldehyde is a reactive product of ethanol metabolism.
It promotes lipid peroxidation and acetaldehyde–protein adduct formation.
Cytoskeletal, membrane and potentially immune-mediated effects add to hepatocellular injury.
Ethanol → acetaldehyde
Protein adducts / lipid injury
Membrane + cytoskeletal dysfunction
Source-based mechanistic summary
Slide 28 · CYP2E1 links ethanol exposure to oxidative stress
High alcohol exposure
Hepatic CYP2E1 induction
Reactive oxygen species
Protein / membrane / mitochondrial injury
CYP2E1 is a microsomal cytochrome P450 enzyme.
Oxidative injury can promote hepatocyte apoptosis.
Slide 29 · Reduced antioxidant defense worsens injury
Alcohol disrupts hepatic methionine metabolism.
Lower glutathione availability sensitizes the liver to oxidative damage.
Altered homocysteine metabolism may contribute to endoplasmic reticulum stress.
Methionine disruption
Reduced glutathione
Higher oxidative vulnerability
Mechanistic schematic
Slide 30 · Alcohol-associated disease engages the gut–liver axis
Alcohol-associated gut barrier effects
Increased portal endotoxin exposure
Kupffer-cell inflammatory signaling
Hepatic cytokines and injury
Gut-derived lipopolysaccharide and innate immune activation.
The contribution is biologically plausible but individual causal pathways remain complex.
Slide 31 · CD14–TLR4 signaling contributes to inflammation
Gut-derived LPS can interact with CD14 on hepatic Kupffer cells.
TLR4 activation drives inflammatory cytokine and chemokine release.
DAMPs from dying hepatocytes can further activate innate immune pathways.
LPS / CD14
TLR4 signaling
Cytokines + chemokines
Inflammatory injury
Simplified innate immune pathway
Slide 32 · Alcohol injury varies among exposed individuals
Host susceptibility
Risk is not determined by alcohol dose alone.
Sex-related sensitivity is described.
Genetic variants in alcohol metabolism and immune responses may modify injury.
Concurrent hepatic insults
Chronic viral hepatitis or iron overload can amplify damage.
Metabolic steatohepatitis can overlap with alcohol injury.
A multifactorial evaluation is needed for mixed exposures.
Slide 33 · Genetic variation may influence alcohol responses
Twin data support a genetic contribution to alcohol-associated disease susceptibility.
Alcohol-metabolizing enzymes differ in activity among individuals.
Reduced aldehyde dehydrogenase activity in an ALDH2 variant associated with alcohol intolerance.
Slide 34 · Alcohol-associated morphology often begins in zone 3
Early lipid deposition and subsequent fibrosis tend to be prominent in centrilobular regions.
More severe disease can extend outward toward portal tracts.
Pattern is suggestive but is not a standalone etiologic diagnostic test.
CV
Zone 3
Zone 2
Zone 1
Portal
CV = central vein; Alcohol-associated injury begins near zone 3
Simplified acinar axis (not a scaled anatomical diagram)
Slide 35 · Alcohol-associated hepatitis: Histologic pattern
Hepatocellular injury
Ballooned hepatocytes, sometimes with Mallory hyaline.
Spotty necrosis/apoptosis; More extensive injury in severe cases.
Mixed steatosis may persist.
Associated response
Neutrophilic lobular infiltration is often conspicuous.
Lobular macrophages and lymphocytes contribute.
Zone 3 pericellular or perivenular fibrosis may accompany injury.
Slide 36 · Fibrosis also distorts hepatic microcirculation
Chronic alcohol-associated damage produces pericellular and perivenular scarring.
Progressive fibrosis may bridge vascular compartments and form nodules.
Fibrous obliteration of venous structures contributes to abnormal perfusion in established cirrhosis.
Zone 3 pericellular
Portal / periportal
Bridging → cirrhosis
Schematic fibrosis sequence
Slide 37 · Clinical presentation: Alcohol-associated steatosis
Patients may have hepatomegaly with only mild biochemical abnormalities.
Severe hepatic dysfunction is unusual when isolated steatosis is present.
Alcohol cessation and adequate nutrition can reverse early fatty change.
Slide 38 · Clinical presentation: Alcohol-associated hepatitis
An episode may follow heavy drinking and appear as acute systemic illness.
Symptoms can include malaise, anorexia, weight loss and upper abdominal discomfort.
Tender hepatomegaly, jaundice and inflammatory blood-test changes may be observed.
Severe presentations may resemble acute liver failure or cholestatic disease.
Slide 39 · Biochemistry can support—but not prove—etiology
Alcohol-associated pattern
AST is often higher than ALT.
A ratio around 2:1 or greater may support suspicion when the history is uncertain.
Hyperbilirubinemia and alkaline phosphatase elevation can accompany active hepatitis.
Important interpretive limits
AST:ALT ratio alone is neither a definitive test nor a histologic classification.
Severity and clinical context govern interpretation.
Coexisting liver conditions must remain in the differential.
Slide 40 · Cirrhosis is the major advanced consequence
Regenerative nodules and fibrous septa remodel the liver architecture.
Portal hypertension and impaired synthetic capacity underlie many complications.
Liver failure, hemorrhage, infection and hepatocellular carcinoma are recognized late risks.
Slide 41 · Withdrawal can change the path of alcohol injury
Alcohol cessation
Reduction of continuing injury
Steatosis / early scar may regress
Established cirrhosis often persists
The reversibility of histologic change depends on stage.
Complete reversal of alcohol-associated cirrhosis is uncommon in the source text.
Slide 42 · MASLD and MASH: Definitions in the source
MASLD denotes hepatic steatosis associated with cardiometabolic risk, in the absence of another sufficient explanation.
MASH describes MASLD with steatohepatitic hepatocellular injury.
The textbook contrasts the newer names with NAFLD and NASH terminology.
Metabolic risk + steatosis
MASLD
Steatohepatitic histology
MASH
Classification concept; Full diagnostic assessment is required
Slide 43 · Cardiometabolic context is foundational
Commonly associated conditions
Obesity, particularly increased visceral adipose mass.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance.
Dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome.
Why context matters
Metabolic comorbidity raises pretest suspicion.
It also predicts associated extrahepatic risk.
The presence of metabolic risk does not automatically exclude an additional hepatic cause.
Slide 44 · MASLD requires evaluation beyond steatosis
The textbook framework includes steatosis and cardiometabolic risk factors.
History must address alcohol exposure, medications and secondary causes of liver injury.
Hepatitis C, Wilson disease and other potential etiologies must be considered where relevant.
Do not substitute a fatty liver imaging result for a complete etiologic evaluation.
Slide 45 · Insulin-resistant adipose tissue increases lipid flux
Insulin resistance
Dysfunctional visceral adipocytes
Greater free fatty acid release
Hepatic triglyceride storage
The source emphasizes excess free fatty acid delivery to hepatocytes.
Visceral adipose tissue also produces inflammatory mediators.
Slide 46 · Adipose inflammation contributes to MASH biology
Dysfunctional adipose tissue releases inflammatory signals, including TNF-α.
This proinflammatory environment can aggravate hepatocyte stress.
The degree of steatohepatitis varies despite similar levels of insulin resistance.
Adipose dysfunction
TNF-α + increased fatty acids
Hepatocyte stress and injury
Schematic; Multifactorial relationship
Slide 47 · Lower adiponectin reduces lipid disposal
Insulin-resistant adipose tissue may release less adiponectin.
This reduces fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle and increases the substrate available to the liver.
The combined effects favor hepatocellular triglyceride accumulation.
Reduced adiponectin
Reduced peripheral fatty acid oxidation
More hepatic lipid uptake
Based on source pathogenesis discussion
Slide 48 · Lipophagy is a second lipid-clearance mechanism
Lipophagy is selective autophagic turnover of intracellular lipid stores.
Reduced hepatocyte lipolysis through altered lipophagy in MASLD.
Decreased lipid clearance can reinforce greater fatty acid delivery and storage.
Reduced lipophagy
Persistent intracellular lipid
Hepatocellular steatosis
Mechanism summarized from textbook
Slide 49 · Oxidative stress links steatosis to injury
Hepatocyte lipid accumulation
Lipid peroxidation under oxidative stress
Membrane / mitochondrial damage
Apoptosis, necrosis and inflammation
The pathogenesis is multifactorial; Fat accumulation alone does not predict all outcomes.
Inflammatory responses may amplify damage after the initial insult.
Slide 50 · Additional factors linked to MASLD progression
Diet and microbiome
High-fructose diets are associated with more fibrosis in the source discussion.
Trans-fat intake may contribute to liver injury.
Gut-derived endotoxin is associated with inflammatory activation.
Hypoxia and additional liver injury
Obstructive sleep apnea may contribute via intermittent hypoxia.
Concurrent hemochromatosis or other chronic injury can accelerate fibrosis.
These associations do not establish a single causal pathway for every patient.
Slide 51 · Cytokines connect hepatocyte injury to fibrosis
Hepatocyte damage
Kupffer-cell signaling: TNF-α / TGF-β
Stellate-cell activation
Collagen deposition
Persistent wound-healing activity produces pericellular scarring.
With progression, bridging fibrosis and cirrhosis develop.
Slide 52 · Histologic triad of MASH
Component
What the pathologist looks for
Interpretation
Steatosis
Fat in ≥5% of hepatocytes
Establishes hepatic steatosis
Ballooning
Enlarged, injured hepatocytes
Required steatohepatitic injury
Lobular inflammation
Inflammatory foci in the lobule
Required component of pattern
Slide 53 · MASH fibrosis often begins perisinusoidally
Zone 3 pericellular collagen deposition may have a fine chicken-wire pattern.
Trichrome stain can reveal scars that are inconspicuous on routine H&E.
Later disease often shows periportal fibrosis, bridging and cirrhosis.
Zone 3 pericellular
Portal / periportal
Bridging → cirrhosis
Schematic fibrosis sequence
Slide 54 · Steatohepatitis activity and fibrosis are distinct
Inflammatory activity
Steatosis, ballooning and lobular inflammatory injury.
May fluctuate with changing exposures or metabolic control.
Cannot substitute for an assessment of fibrosis.
Fibrosis burden
Represents accumulated extracellular matrix and architecture change.
Advanced fibrosis increases risk of major liver outcomes.
May persist even when steatosis is less apparent.
Slide 55 · Adult and pediatric MASLD differ
Typical adult pattern
Zone 3 pericellular and perisinusoidal fibrosis is emphasized.
Steatosis, lobular inflammation and ballooning are central when MASH develops.
Fibrosis progression may produce bridging septa.
Pediatric pattern
Steatosis is frequently more diffuse.
Portal fibrosis may be more prominent than centrilobular fibrosis.
Ballooning may be absent.
Do not transfer adult histologic expectations uncritically to pediatric liver biopsies.
Slide 56 · MASLD can be clinically silent
Patients with steatosis alone are commonly asymptomatic.
Liver fat may be detected incidentally on abdominal imaging.
Some patients with MASH have fatigue or right upper abdominal discomfort with hepatomegaly.
Biochemical abnormalities may be present despite minimal symptoms.
Slide 57 · Imaging and biopsy answer different questions
Imaging / clinical assessment
Imaging can identify hepatic fat accumulation.
Metabolic comorbidities and laboratory studies frame the likely disease context.
Other causes of injury must be considered.
Liver biopsy
Shows ballooning and lobular inflammation needed for histologic MASH.
Provides direct assessment of fibrosis.
Can assist when multiple etiologies are plausible.
Slide 58 · A structured differential diagnosis avoids attribution error
Obtain alcohol history and relevant medication/exposure history.
Evaluate for viral hepatitis, autoimmune conditions and metabolic or inherited liver disease where indicated.
Look for possible dual etiologies rather than requiring exactly one cause.
Interpret fibrosis and inflammation in the complete clinicopathologic context.
Slide 59 · Important complications extend beyond the liver
Progressive liver disease
Advanced fibrosis and decompensated cirrhosis.
Portal hypertension, hepatic dysfunction and hepatocellular carcinoma.
In advanced stages, the fatty lesion may be less visible.
Systemic consequences
Metabolic syndrome often coexists with cardiovascular disease.
Cardiovascular disease as a frequent cause of death in MASH.
Overall risk is not captured by liver histology alone.
Slide 60 · Alcohol-associated hepatitis versus MASH
Domain
Alcohol-associated pattern
MASH pattern
Driver
Ethanol exposure and susceptibility
Metabolic dysfunction / insulin resistance
Histology
Steatosis, ballooning, inflammation, fibrosis
Same core lesions; overlap substantial
Typical tendency
More neutrophils / Mallory hyaline on average
Often relatively more steatosis
Identification
History and clinicopathologic assessment
Metabolic context and etiologic assessment
Slide 61 · Histologic overlap is a deliberate diagnostic warning
Alcohol-associated steatohepatitis and MASH cannot be reliably distinguished histologically.
Features reported as more common in alcohol-associated hepatitis are probabilistic tendencies.
Etiologic attribution requires a careful account of exposure, metabolic features and concurrent disorders.
No single pathologic feature is an alcohol-specific biomarker.
Slide 62 · Case application: Acute hepatitis after heavy drinking
Clinical vignette
A patient develops jaundice, tender hepatomegaly and elevated aminotransferases after a period of heavy alcohol intake.
Interpretation question
Which elements support alcohol-associated hepatitis, and what remains uncertain?
The exposure and clinical syndrome support alcohol-associated injury. The diagnosis still requires evaluation for other causes; Steatohepatitic biopsy changes would not prove alcohol as the only etiology.
Slide 63 · Case application: Incidental steatosis with diabetes
Clinical vignette
Imaging identifies fatty liver in an asymptomatic patient with type 2 diabetes and increased visceral adiposity.
Interpretation question
Can imaging alone establish MASH or advanced fibrosis?
No. The findings raise suspicion for MASLD, but imaging-detected steatosis does not demonstrate the biopsy-defined inflammatory/ballooning pattern of MASH or provide histologic fibrosis staging.
Slide 64 · Dual risk factors change the interpretation
Consider both etiologic drivers
Relevant alcohol intake and metabolic dysfunction may coexist.
Some patients have viral hepatitis, iron overload or other simultaneous injury.
The pathologist should communicate pattern and stage precisely.
Clarify the diagnostic question
Is steatosis present?
Is there active steatohepatitis?
How much fibrosis is present, and what is the likely clinical cause?
Slide 65 · Integrated high-yield synthesis
Steatotic liver disease spans relatively reversible fat storage to inflammatory injury, fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Alcohol and metabolic dysfunction use different upstream mechanisms but converge on overlapping morphologic lesions.
Ballooning, lobular inflammation and pericellular fibrosis are central histologic concepts.
Etiology is assigned clinically; Severity and prognosis depend strongly on fibrosis and complications.
Slide 66 · Source and interpretation notes
Primary source: Robbins, Cotran & Kumar, Pathologic Basis of Disease, 11th ed. (2026), Chapter 18, “Steatotic Liver Disease,” pp. 766–771.
Comparative content draws from the immediately adjacent “Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease” and “Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease” sections.
All diagrams are original, simplified, editable PowerPoint schematics; they do not depict observed specimens or reproduce the textbook’s figures.
Source material was available as extracted Markdown. Original chapter PDF and licensed textbook images were not available for figure-level verification.