Infectious diseases of the hepatobiliary system

This review will concentrate on commonly encountered infectious diseases in biopsy practice and will consider three scenarios: Firstly, the most frequent, where the biopsy arrives with the infectious disease stated on the request form. Secondly where the patient has a risk factor placing infectious diseases high in the differential diagnosis and, thirdly, where infection is one of several possible aetiologies when a liver biopsy shows a particular pattern of inflammation.