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Despite the enormous expansion and refinement of laboratory methods, histological data still form the solid foundation upon which the diagnosis of liver disease is built [9]. Nevertheless, modern biochemical and radiological methods of investigation have considerably reduced the need for liver biopsy — a most welcome development when we remember that liver biopsy is an invasive technique.
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Thaler, H. (1983). Liver Biopsy. In: Csomós, G., Thaler, H. (eds) Clinical Hepatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68748-8_12
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