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Transient bacteremia after a percutaneous liver biopsy

Deepa Sheth1, Anil Pillai, Hector Ferral

  • 1Department of Interventional Radiology, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. dsheth2@gmail.com

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR
|October 31, 2009
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