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Swelling of the hepatocyte, rounding of its contour, and alteration of the cytoplasm, which takes on a reticulated, rarified, or flocculant quality. The cytoplasm of the ballooned hepatocytes often contains clumps of eosinophilic ropey material known as Mallory-Denk bodies (MDBs) or Mallory hyaline, which is composed of hyperphosphorylated misfolded intermediate filaments, ubiquitin, and ubiquitin-binding protein P62. [PMID:31603713, PMID:31885839]
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