Risk in fine-needle abdominal biopsy
β Scribed by Tito Livraghi; Bruno Damascelli; Claudio Lombardi; Ivo Spagnoli
- Book ID
- 102331379
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 470 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The complications of fineβneedle 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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