Blind liver biopsy in children - Diagnostic significance and complications in authors' own material

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1155-1158

  Lebensztejn, D M ^a   Kaczmarski, M ^a   Sobaniec Lotowska, M ^a   Barwijuk Machala, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blind liver biopsy; Children; Complications; Indications

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; GILBERT DISEASE; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; SAFETY;

EID: 0034537179     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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