Major complications after percutaneous biopsy of native or transplanted liver in pediatric patients: a nationwide inpatient database study in Japan

Table 4 Major complication rates following pediatric percutaneous liver biopsy on native or transplanted liver in sex or age-stratified analysis

Characteristics	Category	Cases with major complication in native liver (N = 13)	Cases with major complication in transplanted liver (N = 5)	p-value
Sex	Male (N = 1701)	6/734 (0.8)	2/967 (0.2)	0.083
Sex	Female (N = 1883)	7/576 (1.2)	3/1307 (0.2)	0.012
Age (years)	< 10 (N = 1764)	9/592 (1.5)	4/1172 (0.3)	0.014
Age (years)	≥ 10 (N = 1820)	4/718 (0.6)	1/1102 (0.1)	0.083

All data are shown as number of patients reaching events/total number of patients analyzed in subgroups (%)

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