[Light microscopic findings on globular hyalin bodies in the human liver and its electron microscopic equivalents (author's transl)].

According to electron microscopic investigations, there is no uniform substratum and no uniform formal pathogenesis in the light microscopic appearance of globular hyalin bodies in the liver. This paper presents a survey on the different electron microscopic equivalents of the light microscopic findings of globular hyalin bodies in human liver biopsies. These electron microscopic equivalents, their occurrence, their different pathogenesis and, resulting from this, their different diagnostic and prognostic significance are described and demonstrated in detail.