RT Book, Section
A1 Ellison, E. Christopher
A1 Zollinger, Robert M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1127273391
T1 BIOPSY OF LIVER, OPEN
T2 Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 10e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179755-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127273391
RD 2023/03/23
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.