Plasmodium falciparum malaria: liver

Histopathology of the liver This image shows a high power view of a section of liver from an autopsy of a child with falciparum malaria. There is a large macrovesicular fatty change in hepatocytes (a nonspecific response to anaemia) and pigment granules in the Kupffer cells. H&E stain. Image W0043212 shows another specimen from the same patient.