Approaches to liver biopsy techniques - Revisited

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-327

  Strassburg, Christian P ^a   Manns, Michael P ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Coagulation; Fibrosis; Hemorrhage; Minilaparoscopy; Staging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ASCITES; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; STANDARD;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES;

EID: 33750310019     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-951599     Document Type: Review

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