The Importance of Experience in Percutaneous Liver Biopsies Guided with Ultrasonography. A Lesion-focused Approach.

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-259

  Caliskan, Kosti Can ^a   Cakmakci, Emin ^a   Celebi, Irfan ^a   Basak, Muzaffer ^a  

^a SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Liver; Percutaneous; Ultrasound guided biopsy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; PERCUTANEOUS LIVER BIOPSY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SHOULDER PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84855259453     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.10.005     Document Type: Review

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