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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Metabolism. 2015 Dec 2;65(8):1080–1086. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2015.11.008

Table 2.

Essential Elements of the NASH CRN Scoring System (35)

Numerical Grade or Stage Feature
Fibrosis
0 None
1 Perisinusoidal or periportal fibrosis; 3 substages defined
2 Perisinusoidal and periportal fibrosis
3 Bridging fibrosis
4 Cirrhosis

Ballooning
0 None
1 Few
2 Many

Lobular Inflammation
0 No foci
1 <2 foci per 20× field
2 2–4 foci per 20× field
3 >4 foci per 20× field

Portal Inflammation
0 None
1 Mild
2 More than mild
3

Steatosis
0 <5%
1 5% to 33%
2 33% to 67%
3 >67%