How Hepatologists Use Liver Biopsy in the Evaluation of Liver Disease?

Surg Pathol Clin. 2023 Sep;16(3):443-456. doi: 10.1016/j.path.2023.04.001. Epub 2023 Jun 11.

Abstract

This article focuses on how hepatologists view the role of liver biopsy in diagnosis, assessment, and management of chronic and acute liver disease, and its variable use among different etiologies of liver disease and in the evaluation of liver fibrosis.

Keywords: Abnormal liver tests; Hepatic fibrosis; Hepatic steatosis; Liver biopsy; Liver fibrosis.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Gastroenterologists*
  • Humans
  • Liver Cirrhosis / diagnosis
  • Liver Cirrhosis / pathology