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World J Gastrointest Oncol
May 2024
Second Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital of Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital, and Heilongjiang Provincial Clinical Medical Research Center for Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreaticobiliary Diseases, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Background: Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is a premalignant biliary-type epithelial neoplasm with intraductal papillary or villous growth. Currently reported local palliative therapeutic modalities, including endoscopic nasobiliary drainage, stenting and biliary curettage, endoscopic biliary polypectomy, percutaneous biliary drainage, laser ablation, argon plasma coagulation, photodynamic therapy, and radiofrequency ablation to relieve mechanical obstruction are limited with weaknesses and disadvantages. We have applied percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy (PTCS)-assisted biliary polypectomy (PTCS-BP) technique for the management of IPNB including mucin-hypersecreting cast-like and polypoid type tumors since 2010.
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April 2015
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weil Cornell Medical College, Cornell University New York, New York, USA.
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