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Outpatient Percutaneous Liver Biopsy is a Low-risk Procedure and has Steatosis as a New Indication Trend
2021-05-27
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BACKGROUND. Histological evaluation has a crucial role in diagnosing hepatic diseases and percutaneous liver biopsy (PLB) is widely chosen for this purpose. We aim to describe its indications, the rate and severity of adverse events (AEs) in an outpatient and ultrasound (US)-guided setting over 5 years. METHODS. This observational, single-center, and retrospective study included patients submitted to PLB between 2...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e4661350-2f5d-5e44-83b8-d360e8774719
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.162209293.34836317/v1
