TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - BIOPSY OF LIVER, OPEN
A1  - Ellison, E. Christopher
A1  - Zollinger, Robert M.
PY  - 2016
T2  - Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 10e
AB  - It  is  not  uncommon  during  an  exploratory  laparotomy  to  remove  a  small  fragment  of  the  liver  for  histologic  study.  Biopsy  of  the  liver  is  indicated  in  most  patients  who  have  a  history  of  splenic  or  liver  disease,  or  in  the  presence  of  a  metastatic  nodule.  The  specimen  should  not  be  taken  from  an  area  near  the  gallbladder,  since  the  vascular  and  lymphatic  connections  between  the  liver  and  gallbladder  are  such  that  a  pathologic  process  involving  the  gallbladder  may  have  spread  to  the  neighboring  liver,  and  as  a  result  the  biopsy  would  not  give  a  true  picture  of  the  liver  as  a  whole.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127273391
ER  -