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Are there long term effects of a muscle biopsy?
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Muscle biopsy: There are no long term effects of muscle biopsy, it is a minor surgical procedure and healing is usually without any events.Like any surgical procedure there is risk of infection and some bleeding after the procedure, but no long term sequle.
Answered 3/26/2014
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