title: Therapeutic biliary endoscopy.
abstract: An analysis of the recent medical literature on therapeutic biliary endoscopy shows continuing developments in technique, as well as an effort to obtain objective data on the long-term outcomes with different clinical applications. There are still too few studies analyzing costs, and these should be encouraged in the immediate future.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy. rome99secret@uni.net
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Costamagna
mesh_terms: D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D001662:Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures; D004724:Endoscopy; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents