Re-purposed use of a stiffening wire as a novel adjunct for direct cholangioscopy access

Endoscopy 2017; 49(11): 1118-1119
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-118219

Letter to the editor

Vincent Zimmer

¹Department of Medicine, Marienhausklinik St Josef Kohlhof, Neunkirchen, Germany

²Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University

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