Monday, February 2, 2009

Liver puncture examination may lead to the proliferation of liver tumor

This is a big problem controversy, liver tumor biopsy to be done either in the end, because it was suspected in the biopsy, the cancer may spread with the pinhole. 

Recently, University Hospital Birmingham Mirza physicians in addition to their own studies, and reference documents published so far, including seven retrospective and a forward-looking study, a total of 1340 cases collected for the study found that patients If the patients of liver cancer caused by liver biopsy to accept the proliferation of 2.7 percent, the annual incidence of 0.9 percent, in his analysis of the literature, liver cancer undergo invasive inspection caused the proliferation of liver cancer in accordance with the literature and different, which is about 4 percent, about 1.3 percent each year around. But he also pointed out that even if there is no impact on the spread of a patient's survival, because they can be removed or partially processed. 

We frequently encountered in clinical practice refused to accept the lymph node biopsy or liver, lung puncture examination of view, but the liver tumor may be the primary liver cell itself, but also may be caused by the gastrointestinal tract, transferred from the lungs, causes may be dozens above, due to different pathological affect treatment, it can not be solely with the CT or PET found that patients given mass, we found that the tumor or in a variety of methods can be used to do when pathological confirmation organizations to determine the diagnosis in order to further treatment.

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