[Ultrasonically guided needle biopsy in malignant focal solid nodules of the liver].
In the most of the cases, the diagnosis of focal solid hepatic lesions are performed by ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance and hepatic angiography imagig. However, the distinction between benign and malignant neoplasias, sometimes is made after liver biopsy. This report is about 32 of these lesions, diagnosed after guided liver biopsy by ultrasonography. The efficacy of this propedeutic method, minimally invasive, is defined emphasizing that there are no mortality and low levels of morbidity.
de Oliveira e Silva
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Centro Terapêutico Especializado em Fígado-CETEFI, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo.
Costa Filho
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CF
dos Santos
T E
TE
de Melo
C R
CR
Cardoso
E S
ES
Teixeira
A C
AC
Amaral
C H
CH
Santo
G C
GC
D'Albuquerque
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LA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*