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Foci of altered hepatocytes in the mouse liver are usually invisible with the naked eye. However, they may occasionally be recognizable grossly on careful examination, as small, whitish spots, 1–2 mm in diameter, on the liver surface.
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Ruebner, B.H., Bannasch, P., Hinton, D.E., Cullen, J.M., Ward, J.M. (1997). Foci of Altered Hepatocytes, Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Popp, J.A., Mohr, U. (eds) Digestive System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25996-2_2
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