Biliary radiofrequency ablation: burning issues

Endoscopic treatment of biliary neoplasms is a frontier of ERCP. Endoscopists lack widely accepted, effective, and safe therapies that not only relieve obstruction but also control or cure intraductal neoplasia. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) may enhance local management of biliary neoplasms and is simpler and easier to use than photodynamic therapy, but definitive studies establishing its  benefit are lacking. In this context, the study of Camus et al1 in this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy provides the first prospectively collected evidence that RFA may cure intraductal extension of ampullary adenomas.
Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Original article Source Type: research