Liver biopsy: blind or guided?
- 3 December 1994
- Vol. 309 (6967) , 1455-1456
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.309.6967.1455
Abstract
Percutaneous liver biopsy has a mortality of 0.01%-0.1%.3 4 Death is usually due to bleeding or to biliary peritonitis as a result of puncture from the gall bladder. The incidence …Keywords
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