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Digital single-operator cholangioscopy: a useful tool for selective guidewire placements across complex biliary strictures.

Arne BokemeyerDina GrossMarkus BrücknerTobias NowackiDominik BettenworthHartmut SchmidtHauke HeinzowIyad KabarHansjoerg UllerichFrank Lenze
Published in: Surgical endoscopy (2018)
Digital SOC-assisted guidewire placements have high technical success rates, especially in benign biliary strictures. This technique can help to avoid more invasive procedures such as percutaneous transhepatic or endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage.
Keyphrases
  • ultrasound guided
  • fine needle aspiration
  • minimally invasive