Acute Yellow Atrophy
Acute Yellow Atrophy : Massive necrosis of the liver, a rare complication of viral hepatitis (fulminant hepatitis) that may also result from exposure to hepatotoxins or from drug hypersensitivity. A lobe or the entire liver shrinks, becoming a soft, flabby, yellow-brown to green mass with a wrinkled capsule. There is confluent necrosis of hepatocytes, often with fatty change. Mortality is 60% to 90%
No records Found