Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology

Histological analysis of liver tissue continues to play an important role in modern hepatological practice. This review explores the indications for medical liver biopsy in addition to the procedure itself, potential complications, preparation of tissue and routine staining. A broad selection of his...

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Autores principales: Boyd, Alexander, Cain, Owen, Chauhan, Abhishek, Webb, Gwilym James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Liver
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6914302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31885839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2018-101139
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description Histological analysis of liver tissue continues to play an important role in modern hepatological practice. This review explores the indications for medical liver biopsy in addition to the procedure itself, potential complications, preparation of tissue and routine staining. A broad selection of histological images is included to illustrate the appearance of liver tissue both in health and in several important diseases.
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spelling pubmed-69143022019-12-27 Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology Boyd, Alexander Cain, Owen Chauhan, Abhishek Webb, Gwilym James Frontline Gastroenterol Liver Histological analysis of liver tissue continues to play an important role in modern hepatological practice. This review explores the indications for medical liver biopsy in addition to the procedure itself, potential complications, preparation of tissue and routine staining. A broad selection of histological images is included to illustrate the appearance of liver tissue both in health and in several important diseases. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6914302/ /pubmed/31885839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2018-101139 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology
title_full Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology
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title_short Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology
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