Twenty-year audit of percutaneous liver biopsy in a major Australian teaching hospital

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 692-699

  Van Der Poorten, D ^a   Kwok, A ^a   Lam, T ^a   Ridley, L ^a   Jones, D B ^a   Ngu, M C ^a   Lee, A U ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abnormal coagulation; Audit; Complication; Liver biopsy; Outcome; Percutaneous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749872352     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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