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Case Report

Volume 5, Number 1-2, April 2015, pages 189-191


Glycogenic Hepatopathy With Persistent Hepatomegaly in a Patient With Uncontrolled Type 1 Diabetes

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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Liver biopsy. Hematoxylin and eosin stain (A) showing marked cleaning of the hepatocytes cytoplasm but intact liver architecture with no significant inflammation or fibrosis and periodic acid-Schiff stain (B) demonstrating abundant cytoplasmic glycogen deposits, which disappeared after digestion with diastase (C) consistent with diagnosis of glycogenic hepatopathy.