Interest in hepatocyte transplantation has increased widely in recent years. Transplanting hepatocytes could be useful both for supporting acute liver failure and for correcting genetic disorders. Morphology of ectopically localized hepatocytes is the subject of continuing study. The fate of intrasplenically transplanted hepatocytes has been studied more extensively but experience for the fate in various other sites is limited. Structural changes were well described, but there are limitations to indefinite survival, appropriate function and rejection.

Key words: Hepatocyte, transplantation, morphology.

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