[Alcoholic hepatitis: histo-clinical evaluation].

The clinical and histological symptoms of alcoholic hepatitis diagnosed from liver biopsies are investigated and the results compared with the extent of the histological lesions classified as small, medium or large. Nonspecific symptoms were variable and were not found to be related to the histological damage. The only recurring symptom was hepatomegaly, which was present in 95% of the patients studied. Histo-clinical comparison showed the clinical symptoms to be very variable, and it is concluded that accurate diagnosis and knowledge of the severity of the lesion can only be obtained from liver biopsy samples.