A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) is now offering histotripsy, an innovative, non-invasive treatment that uses ...
(WNDU) - Over 800,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer every year worldwide, and it accounts for more than 700,000 cancer deaths each year. Traditional treatment involves surgery, radiation ...
A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...
A person with symptoms of a liver problem may need to undergo a liver biopsy to determine the cause. A doctor can then make treatment recommendations based on the liver biopsy results. Liver biopsies ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A doctor at an Overland Park hospital made history performing the area’s first non-invasive liver tumor treatment. FOX4 spoke with the surgeon about how it works and the first ...
Told he had liver cancer, Roger Jackson feared the worst. ‘I thought, “Here we go, I’m going to die”,’ says the 80-year-old great-grandfather and retired sales manager. Patients in Roger’s situation ...