Percutaneous liver biopsy using an ultrasound-guided subcostal route

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 128-132

  Rossi, Piero ^a   Sileri, Pierpaolo ^a   Gentileschi, Paolo ^a   Sica, Giuseppe S ^a   Forlini, Antonio ^a   Stolfi, Vito M ^a   De Majo, Adriano ^a   Coscarella, Giorgio ^a   Canale, Silvia ^a   Gaspari, Achille L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Liver; Safety; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEMOBILIA; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 0035102579     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005571904713     Document Type: Article

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