Liver biopsy of an icteric patient shows intensely eosinophilic objects called as Councilman bodies. What can be the diagnosis of this patient?
Correct Answer: Acute viral hepatitis
Description: Councilman bodies (acidophil or apoptotic body) are individual hepatocyte necrosis, in which a dead hepatocyte is identifiable as a shrunken, intensely eosinophilic, round body with no or a pyknotic nucleus. They lie free in the sinusoid. They found in the liver of individuals suffering from viral hepatitis, yellow fever, or other viral syndrome. Ref: The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology: Depament of Pathology and ... By Peter A. Humphrey, Louis P. Dehner, John D. Pfeifer, 2008, Page 209 ; Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver by Stephen A. Geller, Lydia M. Petrovic, Page 90
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