[Etiological and nosological structure of liver diseases (on autopsy data of clinics of I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 1988-1997)].

4908 autopsy protocols were analysed and liver pathology was found in 1.7% of cases. Alcoholic and viral diseases dominated among liver pathology cases, steatosis among alcoholic damages, cirrhosis among viral diseases, primary biliary cirrhosis among autoimmune diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma among malignant tumors. Comparison of the two decades (1988-1997 and 1978-1987) revealed certain growth of alcoholic and viral diseases and their possible combinations. The number of liver tumors of viral etiology also went up.