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After mushroom poisoning the patient developed signs of acute hepatic failure leading to his death. On autopsy the liver is diminished, flaccid; the capsule is wrinkled; the tissue is ochre-yellow on section. Microscopically: fatty degeneration of hepatocytes, necrotic central segments of the hepatic lobes. These changes are characteristic of:

Answer options

  1. Hepatolenticular degeneration
  2. Fatty hepatosis
  3. Acute productive hepatitis
  4. Acute exudative hepatitis
  5. Massive progressive necrosis
Correct answer

Massive progressive necrosis

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