[Diagnosis of viral liver cirrhosis in the practice of the pathologist].

An autopsy observation of viral cirrhosis of the liver is presented. Along with the clinical data, morphological diagnosis of viral cirrhosis of the liver one should take into account not only the nature of cirrhosis (macronodular surface, multilobular structure of regenerative nodes, wide fibrous septae and lymphohistiocyte infiltration, Councilman bodies, "frosted vitreous" hepatocytes, mature lipofuscin in hepatocytes) but also the possibility of detecting HBsAg in paraffin sections of the liver stained with orseine and aldehydethionine.