Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4131218 | Diagnostic Histopathology | 2013 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
This review will concentrate on commonly encountered infectious diseases in biopsy practice and will consider three scenarios: Firstly, the most frequent, where the biopsy arrives with the infectious disease stated on the request form. Secondly where the patient has a risk factor placing infectious diseases high in the differential diagnosis and, thirdly, where infection is one of several possible aetiologies when a liver biopsy shows a particular pattern of inflammation.
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Authors
Rachel M. Brown, Stefan G. Hübscher,