Samina Akhtar, Ramish Riaz, Rehmana Waris, Ruqayya Manzoor.
Role of Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Liver Biopsy Using Semi-Automatic Needle in Pediatric Liver Diseases.
Pak Paed J Jan ;42(3):178-81.

guided percutaneous liver biopsy using semi automatic needle for obtaining adequate specimen for histopathological analysis. Study Design: Descriptive study. Methodology: The study was conducted on 55 patients. Patients with suspected liver masses, lymphoma, chronic liver diseases, congenital fibrosis, disseminated tuberculosis (TB) and uncertain infective diseases were included in the study. Under sedation and ultrasound guidance, semi automatic needle biopsy was performed. Patients were kept for 6 hours under observation for the risk of complications. Appropriate statistical test were applied by using SPSS v20. Results: Sample was successfully obtained from all cases. No repeat biopsy was performed due to inadequate sampling. Histology report was possible in 90.9% (50) of cases. While 9.1% (5) samples yielded descriptive report. No minor complication i.e. pain or minor bleeding was reported. Major complication i.e. major bleeding was reported in one patient. Conclusion: Ultrasound guided semi automatic liver biopsy has high diagnostic yield and minimal complications in pediatric age groups.

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