Table 1.

Histological Findings in ALD

	Steatosis	Alcoholic (Steato‐) Hepatitis	Steatofibrosis	Miscellaneous
Classic findings	Small‐ and large‐droplet fat Beginning and/or most prominent in perivenular regions (acinus zone 3) and extending with increasing severity toward portal tracts	Hepatocyte ballooning with and without Mallory‐Denk bodies and/or neutrophil‐rich parenchymal inflammation	Perivenular and pericellular fibrosis (chicken‐wire fence pattern) Central‐central and/or central‐portal fibrous septa Micronodular (Laennec's cirrhosis)	Megamitochondria
Other possible findings	Diffuse microvesicular steatosis indicative of alcoholic foamy degeneration	Mixed inflammatory infiltrates	Features of fibrotic regression after sustained abstinence	Hepatocellular iron (whether it is related to alcohol use or concomitant hereditary hemochromatosis requires a clinical assessment)