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Pathology lab.

Reviewer
Hypertrophy

Hyperplasia

Atrophy
Metaplasia

Reversible injury
Ultrastructural changes

1. Plasma membrane alterations - blebbing, blunting, and


loss of microvilli

2. Mitochondrial changes - swelling and the appearance of


small amorphous densities
3. Dilation of the ER, with detachment of polysomes;
intracytoplasmic myelin figures may be present
4. Nuclear alterations, with disaggregation of granular and
fibrillar elements

Necrosis

Apoptosis

Fatty change(steatosis)
Hyaline change

Lipids

Pigments
Proteins

Dystrophic calcification
Metastatic calcification

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