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Pathological examination of the liver is essential for the understanding and classification of liver disease. Furthermore, liver biopsy is now an essential step in the management of patients with a wide range of different diseases affecting or apparently affecting the liver. It is thus vital, following a procedure which carries a small but definite risk to the patient, that the pathologist extracts the maximum possible information from the specimen that is available.
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Wight, D.G.D. (1993). Liver Biopsy. In: Atlas of Liver Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2212-2_1
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