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| Centrilobular necrosis | |
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| Other names | Central lobular necrosis, CN |
| Histopathology of shock liver (intermediate magnification), showing centrilobular necrosis but viable periportal hepatocytes. | |
Centrilobular necrosis (CN) is a nonspecific histopathological observation brought on by hepatotoxins like acetaminophen,[1] thioacetamide, paracetamol, tetrachloride,[2] cardiac hepatopathy due to acute right sided cardiac failure, and congestive hepatic injury in veno‐occlusive disease,[3] or hypoxic injury due to ischemia.[2] Centrilobular necrosis can also be found in those with autoimmune hepatitis.[4] Centrilobular necrosis is characterized by necrotic hepatocytes completely encircling the central vein.[5]
After a single or brief exposure to a toxicant, hepatocytes that have suffered centrilobular necrosis typically heal quickly; the liver can regain its normal appearance under a microscope in about a week. Nevertheless, fibrosis, which may be slight, occurs in the previously necrotic zone surrounding the central vein when regeneration replaces the necrotic hepatocytes if sinusoidal cells and the normal scaffolding are destroyed.[5]
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