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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Pathol. 2011 Mar 10;42(9):1230–1239. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.11.019

Table 2.

Summary of the histological findings of 87 patients.

Histological Characteristic of Patients by Diagnosis CM Other* Aparasitemic** p-value***
0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4
Parasitized Red Blood Cells 21 19 7 3 21 3 0 0 12 0 0 0 <0.0001
Sequestration 45 4 1 24 0 0 12 0 0 0.5570
Lobular inflammation 14 22 12 2 6 14 0 4 5 5 2 0 0.0420
Portal Inflammation 17 17 12 3 1 10 7 3 3 1 8 2 1 1 0 0.5270
Necrosis 45 4 1 19 4 1 9 2 1 0.3250
Microvesicular Fat 42 7 1 0 0 16 4 2 1 1 6 1 1 2 2 0.0080
Macrovesicular Fat 47 2 1 24 0 0 12 0 0 1.0000
Mixed Fat 48 2 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 2 10 1 0 0 1 0.0340
Ballooning of Hepatocytes 49 1 20 4 9 3 0.0090
Kupfer Cells Prominent 0 0 3 21 26 3 7 9 4 1 4 4 3 1 0 <0.0001
*

Includes 4 patients with Reye’s histology

**

Includes 5 patients with Reye’s histology

***

Fisher’s Exact P-value from a full contingency table (for first three categories) and for Reye’s vs. all other patients.