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Measurement of the Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient and Transjugular Liver Biopsy
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Nontargeted Liver Biopsy in Children
Colin Brown1, Jonathan Du1, Erika Yee2
1Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Seminars in Interventional Radiology
|May 16, 2025
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