Bile pleuritis: another complication of percutaneous liver biopsy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Michael H. Dosik
- Source
- The American journal of digestive diseases. 20(1)
- Subject
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Physiology
Menghini needle
Internal medicine
Biopsy
medicine
Bile
Humans
Pleurisy
Liver injury
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Biopsy, Needle
Gastroenterology
General Medicine
Hepatology
medicine.disease
Liver
Liver biopsy
Percutaneous liver biopsy
Obstructive jaundice
Radiology
Complication
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0002-9211
There has been a marked decrease in morbidity and mortality from hepatic-needle biopsy in recent years. Despite this, cases are being reported which suggest that almost the entire spectrum of traumatic liver injury may occur because of biopsy. In this patient with obstructive jaundice, bile pleuritis requiring surgical intervention followed liver biopsy. High-risk liver biopsies should be performed by experienced personnel using a small-diameter Menghini needle.