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Percutaneous treatment of liver abscesses: needle aspiration versus catheter drainage.

DOI

283

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0

References

1998

Year

C L Rajak, Sanjay Gupta, Sanjay Jain, Yogesh Chawla, Manpreet Singh Gulati, S Suri
American Journal of Roentgenology

Abstract

Our results show that percutaneous catheter drainage is more effective than needle aspiration in the treatment of liver abscesses. Needle aspiration, if limited to two attempts, has a high failure rate.