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Do I Have A Biopsy Of The Liver To Find Out What Unknown Bumps Or Growths Are?

Hi, my question is Do I have a biopsy of the liver to find out what unknown bumps or growths are. No one has seen these before they are not the normal looking cancer or non cancer bumps. I also do not have a Portal vein attached to the liver and they don't know it has been functioning for 16 years without it.
Thu, 17 Mar 2016
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Hi thanks for asking question.

Noted you have growth in liver since long duration.

If you are smoking and having history of oc pills then liver hemangioma like growth may present.So if in USG it is vascular then care taken while doing biopsy.

Here it can be simple adenoma.
It could be chronic inflammatory or infective condition.

So after examination and according to suspucian USG guided biopsy can be taken to differentiate whether it is about infection, inflammatory or tumour condition.

If you have bleeding and coagulation disorder then biopsy can be done very carefully.

Wish you good health.

Take care
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Do I Have A Biopsy Of The Liver To Find Out What Unknown Bumps Or Growths Are?

Hi thanks for asking question. Noted you have growth in liver since long duration. If you are smoking and having history of oc pills then liver hemangioma like growth may present.So if in USG it is vascular then care taken while doing biopsy. Here it can be simple adenoma. It could be chronic inflammatory or infective condition. So after examination and according to suspucian USG guided biopsy can be taken to differentiate whether it is about infection, inflammatory or tumour condition. If you have bleeding and coagulation disorder then biopsy can be done very carefully. Wish you good health. Take care