T. Livraghi, B. Damascelli, C. Lombardi, I. Spagnoli
1983.2.1JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND
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The complications of fine‐needle abdominal biopsy (FNAB) in 11, 700 patients from the authors' own series and from a review of the literature are reported.
Abstract
The complications of fine‐needle abdominal biopsy (FNAB) in 11, 700 patients from our own series and from a review of the literature are reported. The mortality rate (one case of necrotizing pancreatitis) was 0.008%, the rate of major complications (two cases of biliary peritonitis, two tumor seeding, one intrahepatic hematoma, and one peritonitis) was 0.05%, and the rate of other complications (58 cases) was 0.49%, giving a total complication rate of 0.55%.
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LIVRAGHI, T., et al. Risk in fine‐needle abdominal biopsy. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND, 1983, 11.