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From: Novel equation to determine the hepatic triglyceride concentration in humans by MRI: diagnosis and monitoring of NAFLD in obese patients before and after bariatric surgery

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Histopathological examination of steatosis in obese and control patients. A) Representative images with hematoxylin-eosin staining from patients with different degrees of liver steatosis (grades 0 to 3). B) Obese patients showed increased degrees of steatosis compared to non-obese patients who underwent liver surgery. The overall prevalence of hepatic steatosis in our study was 78.29% (101 of 129 patients had macrovesicular steatosis ≥1 at histopathological analysis).

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