Effect of needle gauge and lobe laterality on parenchymal liver biopsy outcome: a retrospective analysis

Gopal Vijayaraghavan,Srinivasan Vedantham,Vikram Rangan,Adib R. Karam,Larry Zheng,Abhijit Roychowdhury,Sarwat Hussain

Effect of needle gauge and lobe laterality on parenchymal liver biopsy outcome: a retrospective analysis

2015

Gopal Vijayaraghavan
Srinivasan Vedantham
Vikram Rangan
Adib R. Karam
Larry Zheng
Abhijit Roychowdhury
Sarwat Hussain

Purpose To analyze the effect of lobe selection, needle gauge, and number of passes on procedure outcomes in terms of specimen length and post-procedure complications.

Keywords:

Liver biopsy
Radiology
General surgery
Medicine
NEEDLE GAUGE
Laterality
Lobe
Image-Guided Biopsy
Specimen length
Hepatitis
Parenchyma
Internal medicine
Hepatology
retrospective analysis

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