1Department of Pathology, University Hospitals, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, and Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
3Department of Medicine, Hôpital St André, GREF INSERM E0362, C.H.U. Bordeaux, France
4Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
5Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
6Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hopital Pellegrin, GREF INSERM E0362, C.H.U Bordeaux, France
7Saint Louis University Liver Center Department of Pathology, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
8Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
9School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK
10Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
11Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
12Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
13Department of Pathology, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece
14Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK
15First Department of Pathology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan
16Department of Human Pathology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
17School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
18Department of Pathology and Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
19Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
20Department of Histopathology, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, UK
21The Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
22Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
23Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Received July 08, 2003; accepted December 03, 2003; previously published online April 30, 2004