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Emilie K Mitten1, Anna Rutherford1
1Harvard Medical School and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy at Brigham & Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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This article focuses on how hepatologists view the role of liver biopsy in diagnosis, assessment, and management of chronic and acute liver disease, and its variable use among different etiologies of liver disease and in the evaluation of liver fibrosis.
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