Value of liver biopsy in the diagnosis of cholestatic jaundice
Vetencourt, R.; More, P.; Suárez, A.
G.E.N 33(3-4): 265-279
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-3503 PMID: 121986 Document Number: 145096
50 patients with cholestatic jaundice were studied with liver biopsy and fine needle transhepatic cholangiography. In 36 cases there was obstruction of the extrahepatic bile ducts. Rest of the cases had normal bile ducts. These findings were compared with those of the liver biopsy. When there is portal inflammation, bile pigment intracellular, cholangitis and bile plugs associated there was obstruction in 99 per cent of cases. A concluded that cholangiography should precede biopsy in cholestatic jaundice.