Over a period of 10 years (January 1995 to September 2005), we performed percutaneous liver biopsy in 631 consecutive patients at two liver centers in Athens, Greece: Evangelismos General Hospital and ...

A person with symptoms of a liver problem may need to undergo a liver biopsy to determine the cause. A doctor can then make treatment recommendations based on the liver biopsy results. Liver biopsies ...

Paul Ehrlich is credited with performing the first percutaneous liver biopsy in 1883 in Germany. 1 After Menghini reported a technique for “one-second needle biopsy of the liver” in 1958, the ...

MagnePath, an Australian company, is a digital health-medtech crossover that sees a way to reduce the time and cost of liver biopsies by using MRI scans to help map the liver. The technique initially ...