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Transcatheter embolization of liver capsule perforation during transvenous liver biopsy
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1986
Abstract:
Fatal hemoperitoneum due to liver capsule perforation has been reported after transvenous liver biopsy. We report 2 cases of prophylactic embolization of such capsular gap. We propose the following techniques for embolization: detection of liver capsule puncture if the liver biopsy is difficult to perform because the liver is small or moves in ascites; and therapeutic embolization of detected capsular gap.