FATAL HEMORRHAGE FOLLOWING NEEDLE BIOPSY IN UREMIA

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I have encountered only one serious hemorrhage following needle biopsy in over 600 such biopsies of the liver and other organs or tumor masses. In this case, the patient's prognosis was hopeless in any event. However, the experience suggests the advisability of listing uremia among the contraindications to needle biopsy or at least suggests that the increased hazard of hemorrhage in uremia be carefully considered. REPORT OF A CASE A 54-year-old white married male rubber factory worker was admitted to Winter Veterans Administration Hospital on Dec. 19, 1952. He stated he had been feeling weak and tired for the past year. Two weeks before admission, he had had an upper respiratory infection together with a periodontal abscess. The diseased tooth was extracted after four days of penicillin therapy. Since then, he had become steadily worse, with anorexia, morning nausea and retching with no vomiting, slight fever, a constant sense of

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