laparoscopic surgery with biopsy

Indications

• liver biopsy
  • cholestasis
  • steatosis
  • hepatitis
  • vanishing bile duct syndrome
  • hepatic cirrhosis
  • primary biliary cirrhosis
  • primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • hepatocellular carcinoma
  • hemochromatosis
  • Wilson's disease
  • methotrexate therapy
  • fever of unknown origin
  • porphyria cutanea tarda
  • non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Hodgkin's disease
  • hepatomegaly
  • liver mass (without diagnosis)
• renal biopsy
  • nephrotic syndrome
  • glomerulonephritis
  • acute renal failure lasting 3-4 weeks
  • atypical course of diabetic nephropathy
  • renal transplantation dysfunction
  • evaluation of renal neoplasm

More general terms

• laparoscopy, abdomen, peritoneum, & omentum, diagnostic