[Alcoholic lesions of the liver (morphology and several questions concerning pathogenesis)].

On the basis of morphological studies of 130 puncture material of the liver in 100 patients with chronic alcoholism the three morphological forms of its lesion were identified: dystrophic changes in hepacytes; alcoholic hepatitis (acute and chronic); cirrhosis of the liver. It is suggested that the morphological forms mentioned above represent the stages of one process--developing alcoholic hepatopathy. Progressing of the process in the liver in chronic alcoholism is connected with necroses of hepacytes as a result of toxic effect of alcohol with a subsequent reaction of the cells of the portal stroma and sinusoids.