Post written by Kazunari Nakahara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, St. Marianna University, School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan. We present a case of successful endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder stenting (EGBS) via straightening of the guidewire that looped in the neck of the gallbladder using a stone retrieval balloon catheter. A 76-year-old woman …
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Access balloon catheter for direct peroral cholangioscopy
Yun Nah Lee, MD, and colleagues from the Digestive Disease Center and Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, SoonChunHyang University School of Medicine, in Bucheon and Seoul, Korea discuss this New Methods article "A newly modified access balloon catheter for direct peroral cholangioscopy by using an ultraslim upper endoscope (with videos)." Direct peroral cholangioscopy (POC) …
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