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Percutaneous biopsy of operable liver lesions: is it necessary or advisable?
1Wakefield Clinic for Gastrointestinal Diseases, Wellington.
The New Zealand Medical Journal
|December 13, 1996
Abstract
Aim:
The necessity and desirability of performing percutaneous biopsy of potentially resectable liver tumours is called into question.
Methods:
Two cases are reported in which percutaneous biopsy of resectable liver tumours was performed unnecessarily and resulted in needle track seeding.
Results:
In both instances patients who underwent potentially curative liver resection were rendered incurable because of biopsy track recurrence.
Conclusion:
The common practice of performing percutaneous ultrasound or CT guided biopsy of potentially resectable lesions in the liver is generally neither necessary nor desirable.