However, liver biopsy is invasive and in many instances reluctantly used by physicians and patients. Now, after many years of evaluation, the noninvasive technique of vibration-controlled ...

This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken ... 17–19 and 21), tissues from both biopsy and autopsy were studied.

This test is also called a PTC. You may have a sample of tissue (biopsy) taken during a PTC. If your bile duct is blocked your doctor may put a drain or stent in so the bile can drain. Your doctor ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(4):481-495. T1 Tumor involving biliary confluence ± unilateral extension to second-order biliary radicles T2 Tumor involving biliary confluence ± ...