Liver Biopsy in Chronic Liver Diseases: Is There a Favorable Benefit: Risk Balance?

Liver biopsy is still useful in selected clinical situations in which it is the only tool to obtain information necessary for the diagnosis, the prognosis, and the decision for treatment. Main examples are viral hepatitis with confounding co-morbidities, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, and autoim...

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Main Authors: Dominique Larrey, Lucy Meunier, José Ursic-Bedoya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S166526811931083X