Review Article Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/pathology.1.001
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy; the Pathologist’s Perspective
Naren Nallapeta1, Deepthi Rao2, Ahmad H. Ali3, Neal Sharma1, Jamal A. Ibdah1, Ghassan M. Hammoud1,*
- 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri – School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- 2Division of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri – School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- 3Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Corresponding Author
Ghassan M. Hammoud, hammoudg@health.missouri.edu
Received Date: August 14, 2020
Accepted Date: September 02, 2020
Nallapeta N, Rao D, Ali AH, Sharma N, Ibdah JA, Hammoud GM. Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy; the Pathologist’s Perspective. J Exp Pathol 2020; 1(1): 1-10.
Copyright: © 2020 Nallapeta N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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