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SUBMITTER: Park JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4974186 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Jin Seok JS Jeong Seok S Kim Joon Mee JM Park Sang Soon SS Lee Don Haeng DH
Journal of Korean medical science 20160901 9
The large animal model with benign biliary stricture (BBS) is essential to undergo experiment on developing new devices and endoscopic treatment. This study conducted to establish a clinically relevant porcine BBS model by means of endobiliary radiofrequency ablation (RFA). Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) was performed on 12 swine. The animals were allocated to three groups (60, 80, and 100 W) according to the electrical power level of RFA electrode. Endobiliary RFA was applied to th ...[more]