Cost-Effectiveness of Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy Table 1

table 1

table 1. Complication Rates of “Blind” Liver Biopsy

Study	Year	n	Complications n (%)

Inpatient
Terry¹⁰	1952	10,600	24^* (0.32)
Thaler¹²	1964	23,382	27 (0.12)
Lindner¹³	1967	79,381	273 (0.34)
Knauer¹	1978	1,067	5 (0.47)
Sherlock et al.¹⁴	1984	6,379	40 (0.63)
Piccinino et al.¹¹	1986	68,276	147 (0.22)
		189,085	516 (0.27)
Outpatient liver biopsy
Rosson et al.¹⁵	1972	63	0 (0)
Ali et al.¹⁶	1978	67	2 (3)
Knauer¹	1978	107	1 (0.9)
Perrault et al.²	1978	829	44 (5.4)
Westaby et al.¹⁷	1980	200	6 (3)
Sherlock et al.¹⁴	1984	55	1 (1.8)
Wright¹⁸	1991	94	1 (1.1)
Janes and Lindor⁴	1993	405	13 (3.2)
Garcia-Tsao and Boyer¹⁹	1993	346	5 (1.4)
Lindor et al.⁸	1996	413	9 (2.2)
		2579	82 (3.2)

*^ Among 7532 cases.**