Liver Biopsies for Chronic Hepatitis C: Should Nonultrasound-Guided Biopsies Be Abandoned? | Zendy

Jennifer A. Flemming | Zendy; David Hurlbut | Zendy; Ben Mussari | Zendy; Lawrence Hookey | Zendy

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Liver Biopsies for Chronic Hepatitis C: Should Nonultrasound-Guided Biopsies Be Abandoned?

Author(s) -

Jennifer A. Flemming,

David Hurlbut,

Ben Mussari,

Lawrence Hookey

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

canadian journal of gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1916-7237

pISSN - 0835-7900

DOI - 10.1155/2009/370651

Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , grading (engineering) , liver biopsy , cirrhosis , histopathology , hepatitis c virus , liver disease , percutaneous , radiology , gastroenterology , pathology , virus , civil engineering , virology , engineering

Liver biopsy has been the gold standard for grading and staging chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)- mediated liver injury. Traditionally, this has been performed by trained practitioners using a nonimage-guided percutaneous technique at the bedside. Recent literature suggests an expanding role for radiologists in obtaining biopsies using an ultrasound (US)-guided technique. The present study was undertaken study to determine if the two techniques produced liver biopsy specimens of similar quality and hypothesized that at our institution, non-US-guided percutaneous liver biopsies for HCV would be of higher quality than US-guided specimens.

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