CLINICAL AND CYTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE LIVER

One of the most important populations of liver cells are Kupffer cells (KCs, tissue macrophages, shore cells, sinusoid cells, endothelial stellate cells), recognized in mi new medical literature and named after Karl Kupffer, professor of anatomy from Koniggsberg, who first described them in 1876 In Poland, these cells are named after the professor of pathological anatomy at the Jagiellonian University, Tadeusz Brovik (Tadeusz Browicz) [1-3].