Heated-balloon ablation as a novel less invasive local treatment for bile duct strictures: A first experimental study

• Tadahisa Inoue ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tinoue-tag@umin.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0718-9099

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• Takuya Masuda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research & Development Department, Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Toda-shi, Saitama, Japan

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• Tomoharu Koiso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research & Development Department, Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Toda-shi, Saitama, Japan

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• Mayu Ibusuki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

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• Yusuke Oshima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research & Development Department, Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Toda-shi, Saitama, Japan

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• Yuta Kato,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research & Development Department, Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., Toda-shi, Saitama, Japan

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• Rena Kitano,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

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• Hiromu Kutsumi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Research Support Center, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Akashi City Hospital, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

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