SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.26, sa.12, ss.1904-1910, 2005 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) involves a heterogeneous group of diseases that places some patients at risk of progression to cirrhosis. In this study, our aim was to investigate the relationships between the histopathological features of NAFLD, hepatic stellate cell activation, and capillarization to find a marker related to fibrosis, for NAFLD.