Practices of Liver Biopsy in France: Results of a Prospective Nationwide Survey

Complications following percutaneous liver biopsy

1986 • 1,184 citations

EASL International Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C Paris, 26–28 February 1999

1999 • 704 citations

A 21-year experience with major hemorrhage after percutaneous liver biopsy

1990 • 655 citations

Chronic hepatitis C virus infection causes a significant reduction in quality of life in the absence of cirrhosis

1998 • 571 citations

Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice

1999 • 482 citations

Indications, methods, and outcomes of percutaneous liver biopsy in England and Wales: an audit by the British Society of Gastroenterology and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

1995 • 456 citations

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts: comparison with paracentesis in patients with cirrhosis and refractory ascites: a randomized trial

1996 • 441 citations

Noninvasive diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis

1997 • 365 citations

Survival and prognostic factors in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis treated with prednisolone

1996 • 291 citations

The role of ultrasonography and automatic-needle biopsy in outpatient percutaneous liver biopsy

1996 • 265 citations

Fulminant hepatic failure in pregnant women: acute fatty liver or acute viral hepatitis?

1996 • 218 citations

Ultrasound-guided liver biopsy for parenchymal liver disease: an economic analysis.

1998 • 202 citations

The role of liver biopsy in hepatitis C

1997 • 171 citations

Cost-effectiveness of ultrasound-guided liver biopsy

1998 • 155 citations

Practice and complications of liver biopsy

1993 • 153 citations

Guided versus blind liver biopsy for chronic hepatitis C: clinical benefits and costs

1999 • 134 citations

Percutaneous biopsy in diffuse liver disease: increasing diagnostic yield and decreasing complication rate by routine ultrasound assessment of puncture site.

1996 • 109 citations

Statement on outpatient percutaneous liver biopsy

1989 • 98 citations

Midazolam sedation for percutaneous liver biopsy

1993 • 74 citations

A randomized trial of ultrasound-guided anterior subcostal liver biopsy versus the conventional Menghini technique

1991 • 61 citations

Use of midazolam for percutaneous liver biopsy

1989 • 45 citations

The inconvenience of investigations used in hepatology: patients' and hepatologists' opinions

1982 • 12 citations