ReviewDigestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society2024
Endoscopic evaluation of indeterminate biliary strictures: Cholangioscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, or both?
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- New Horizons in Cholangiopancreatoscopy: Where Are We Heading in 2026?Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2026Article
- Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment With Cholangiopancreatoscopy.Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2026Review
- Multimodal endoscopic diagnosis in biliary oncology: integrating EUS-guided tissue acquisition and cholangioscopy for personalized cancer care.Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Endoscopic approach to indeterminate biliary strictures.Clinical endoscopy · 2026Review
- Two scopes, one mission: An integrated approach of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic ultrasound to biliary strictures.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Review
- Vendor-Agnostic Vision Transformer-Based Artificial Intelligence for Peroral Cholangioscopy: Diagnostic Performance in Biliary Strictures Compared With Convolutional Neural Networks and Endoscopists.Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2025Article
- Hot Topics in the Surgical Treatment of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: A Narrative Review of Current Managements.Cancers · 2025Review
- Evolving role of endoscopic ultrasound in biliary stricture management: A meta-analysis and systematic review.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2025Article
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- Artificial intelligence for automatic diagnosis and pleomorphic morphological characterization of malignant biliary strictures using digital cholangioscopy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Accurate and timely diagnosis of biliary strictures can be challenging. Because the diagnostic sensitivity and accuracy of standard endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-based tissue sampling for malignancy are suboptimal, additional endoscopic evaluation by cholangioscopy and/or endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is often necessary to differentiate between malignant and benign biliary strictures to guide clinical management. While direct visualization by cholangioscopy and/or high-resolution imaging by EUS are often the first step in the evaluation of an indeterminate biliary stricture (IDBS), tissue diagnosis by cholangioscopy-guided biopsy and/or EUS-guided fine-needle tissue acquisition is the preferred modality to establish a diagnosis of malignancy. Because each modality has its own strengths and limitations, selection of cholangioscopy and EUS is best guided by the biliary stricture location and local expertise. Artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis, biopsy forceps with improved design, contrast-enhanced EUS, and dedicated fine-needle biopsy devices are recent technological advances that may further improve the diagnostic performance of cholangioscopy and EUS in patients with IDBS.
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