Diffuse liver disease

"Diffuse liver disease" is a manifestation of liver tissue lesions in imaging examination, and can also be called liver fibrosis. Hepatic fibrosis is the excessive deposition of diffuse extracellular matrix in the liver. It is the result of activated hepatic stellate cells producing a large amount of collagen deposited in the hepatocyte space under the stimulation of various pathogenic factors. If fibrous tissue continues to proliferate and invade liver cells, destroying the structure of normal liver tissue, forming many nodules surrounded by fibrous tissue, and the liver texture becomes hard, this is cirrhosis.

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