Percutaneous or laparoscopic needle biopsy in the evaluation of chronic liver disease?

Liver biopsies were performed on 60 patients by means of percutaneous needle biopsy, and immediately after that procedure, during laparoscopy from the right and left liver lobes. The histological diagnoses obtained by examining the percutaneous biopsies were found to overlap with the final one that was based on an evaluation of all three liver biopsies. Moreover, highly significant correlation was found to exist between the scores of histological parameters of inflammation, fibrosis, necrosis, and steatosis.