Use of a stiff guidewire in transjugular liver biopsy in patients with a pronounced angle of the suprahepatic veins
In the performance of a transvascular liver biopsy, the Trucut-type transjugular liver biopsy set is advance over a multipurpose catheter place in the suprahepatic vein. Occasionally there is a sharp bend between the suprahepatic veins and the inferior vein cava and the multipurpose catheter does no...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2004-04-01
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Series: | Annals of Hepatology |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S166526811932112X |