Abstract
The aim of this study was to elucidate the characteristics of liver surface in patients with C type acute hepatitis resulting in chronicity. Laparoscopic features of the liver surface in 14 patients with C type was retrospectively studied and compared with those in 23 patients with B type trasient acute hepatitis. In addition, the relationship between endoscopic findings and microscopic findings were also investigated. In the C type patients, vascular proliferation, periportal reddish marking and many small depressions were significantly dominant compared with the B type patients. Regarding the correlation between laparoscopic and histologic findings, periportal reddish marking was well corre-sponding to piecemeal necrosis, while relation between many small depressions and focal necrosis was not so significant. Furtheremore, similar comparison of the above-mentioned features needs to be studied between the patients with C type acute hepatitis resulting in chronicity and patients with C type transient acute hepatitis.
