title: [Ultrasonically guided fine-needle biopsy of space-occupying lesions in liver].
abstract: 105 patients with liver space-occupying lesions were biopsied with fine-needle guided by ultrasound. Smear cytologic examination was performed in all and histologic examination was done simultaneously in some. The diagnosis accuracy rate was 95.2%, sensitivity was 94.9%, specificity was 96.2% which were higher than those diagnosed by ultrasound only (accuracy rate 86.7%) and no complications occurred. The results of cytology, histology and both methods combined are analysed and compared. It shows that the combined examination may increase the diagnosis accuracy rate.
authors.affiliation: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography