Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Different Classifications Concordance and Relationship between Degrees of Morphological Features and Spectrum of the Disease

Table 2

Association between morphological features and fibrosis grade in NASH biopsies according to Bedossa’s histological algorithm.

Morphological features	Fibrosis					value
	Absent	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
Steatosis degrees						= 0.782
1	4 (33.33%)	3 (25%)	2 (16.67%)	3 (25%)	0
2	5 (23.82%)	6 (28.57%)	6 (28.57%)	2 (9.52%)	2 (9.52%)
3	2 (18.19%)	3 (27.27%)	4 (6.36%)	1 (9.09%)	1 (9.09%)
Ballooning						= 0.252
Few	7 (24.14%)	10 (34.48%)	6 (20.69%)	5 (17.24%)	1 (3.45%)
Frequent	4 (26.67%)	2 (13.33%)	6 (40%)	1 (6.67%)	2 (13.33%)
Lobular inflammation						< 0.001
<2 foci/field	11 (39.29%)	8 (28.57%)	6 (21.43%)	2 (7.14%)	1 (3.57%)
2–4 foci/field	0	4 (25%)	6 (37%)	4 (25%)	2 (12.5%)