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Longstanding arterioportal fistula after laparoscopic liver biopsy
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita, Japan.
Abdominal Imaging
|July 3, 1999
Abstract:
We present two patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on liver cirrhosis in whom color Doppler sonography documented an incidental peripheral arterioportal fistula due to a previous liver biopsy under laparoscopy. Detection of the fistula helped in preventing the occurrence of a portal thrombus. Color Doppler sonography should be performed prior to transarterial embolization in patients with HCC on liver cirrhosis with a past history of liver biopsy under laparoscopy.