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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Main Authors: Andrés de Hoyos, Ma Lilia Loredo, Marco A. Martínez, Manuel R. Gil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-04-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S166526811932112X