What is it about?

Report of a feasible and safe new technique

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Why is it important?

It is the first report to our knowledge of this procedure, that has the potencial to become a standard endoscopic treatment of this condition in some cases.

Perspectives

Efficacy confirmation with randomized controlled trials of this novel technique. Offer patients a new option of endoscopic treatment of benign biliary strictures, that could potentially avoid a complicated biliary surgery.

Dr Tomazo A P Franzini
University of Sao Paulo

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This page is a summary of: A novel approach in benign biliary stricture – balloon dilation combined with cholangioscopy-guided steroid injection, Endoscopy, November 2015, Thieme Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1393370.
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