Intracellular accumulations of a variety of materials can occur in response to cellular injury. Here is steatosis, or fatty metamorphosis (fatty change) of the liver in which deranged lipoprotein metabolism from injury leads to accumulation of lipid in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes. Note the large, clear lipid droplets that fill the cytoplasm of many hepatocytes. |
Question: What are causes for hepatic steatosis?