Delayed symptomatic hemobilia after ultrasound-guided liver biopsy: A case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 48, 2002, Pages 1659-1662

  Rossi, Piero ^a   Sileri, Pierpaolo ^a   Gentileschi, Paolo ^a   Sica, Giuseppe S ^a   Ercoli, Lucia ^a   Coscarella, Giorgio ^a   De Majo, Adriano ^a   Gaspari, Achille L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Diagnosis; Hemobilia; Liver biopsy

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM;

ADULT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOBILIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEMOBILIA; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0036841475     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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