background hepatic fibrosis is a typical complication of chronic liver diseases resulting in cirrhosis that remains a major public health problem worldwide. liver biopsy is currently the gold standard for diagnosing and staging hepatic fibrosis. percutaneous liver biopsy; however, is an invasive procedure with risks of complications. therefore, there is need for alternative non-invasive techniq...

Objectives: Liver biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosis of chronic liver diseases. Outpatient percutaneous biopsy is generally safe with a mortality rate of 0.17% and hospitalization rate for bleeding of 3%. Von Willebrand disease (vWD) syndrome is the most common inherited hematological disorder with a prevalence of 1% 3% globally. We sought to study whether vWD increases the risk of ...

Liver biopsy is still the most accurate tool to assess liver histopathology in chronic liver disease (CLD), especially in patients with chronic active hepatitis who need a treatment decision. Nowadays, there are many non-invasive methods are being used to assess liver fibrosis and might replace liver biopsy. One of the new methods is transient elastography (TE/Fibroscan) which has been widely u...

  Primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of liver is a very rare malignancy. Here we report a case of primary hepatic Burkitt’s lymphoma in a 34-year old man who was known case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and presented with weight loss, abdominal pain, and fever. Positive laboratory findings were mild anemia and elevated levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and alkaline phosphatase (AL...

Hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) is a rare and benign liver tumor that affects predominantly young middle-aged women, especially between 30–40 years old. Liver adenomatosis (LA) defined as the presence of 10 or more HCA. There are authors report eight different subtypes HCA, correlates with clinical histopathological features, being inflammatory subtype most common. We present case 32-year-old Cauc...

OBJECTIVES The study aimed to evaluate the complications and quality of the specimens of percutaneous liver biopsy in patients with chronic viral hepatitis who were scheduled for treatment and also to evaluate the contribution of the knowledge of ultrasound guided (USG) biopsy localization to the existing data. METHODOLOGY Liver biopsies conducted at our clinic between 2003 and 2008 were retr...