Introduction This chapter will briefly consider the examination of the recipient’s liver, removed at transplantation, and then focus on the role of the pathologist in the interpretation of the liver allograft biopsy. Complications following liver transplantation have been described in…
CHAPTER CONTENTS General aspects of liver transplantation 948 Historical overview and survival following liver transplantation 948 Indications for liver transplantation 948 Complications of liver transplantation 949 Pathological assessments in liver transplantation 949 Examination of native hepatectomy specimens 950 Pathological changes…
. This chapter covers the different diseases in which there is injury to the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic bile ducts ( Box 9.1 ). The disorders are varied; some, although selectively affecting the bile ducts, are discussed in more detail elsewhere…