label: Mallory bodies
label_lc: mallory bodies
description: "Cytoplasmic hyaline inclusions of hepatocytes that are predominantly filamentous ranging from a diameter of 3 to 24 nm vs. 10 nm of classical IF. Mallory-Denk bodies can be classified as type I (parallels filaments), II (randomly orient filaments), or III (granular and amorphous). Type II occurs in the periphery while type III occurs around the center. MDB occur in ballooned hepatocytes."