Silvia Ribback, Kristin Peters, Mohd Yasser, Jessica Prey, Paula Wilhelmi, Qin Su, Frank Dombrowski, Peter Bannasch
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Background and AimsHepatocellular ballooning is a common finding in chronic liver disease, mainly characterized by rarefied cytoplasm that often contains Mallory-Denk bodies (MDB). Ballooning has mostly been attributed to degeneration but its striking resemblance to glycogenotic/steatotic changes characterizing preneoplastic hepatocellular lesions in animal models and chronic human liver diseases prompts the question whether ballooned hepatocytes (BH) are damaged cells on the path to death or rather viable cells, possibly involved in neoplastic development.