The aims of this study are to compare the needle knife fistulotomy (NKF) technique versus the partial ampullary endoscopic mucosal resection (PA-EMR) technique in patients with difficult biliary cannulation and to assess the incidence rate of complications between these cannulation methods.
Who can participate
Age range16 Years – 90 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Patient who submitted a written informed consent for this trial, and aged between 18-90 years old
* Patient who have naïve papilla (no previous procedure was performed at ampulla)
* Patient who is suspected to have a biliary obstruction or biliary disease
* Patient who is needed to have endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for treatment of biliary obstruction
* Patient who have risks of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography p
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patient who is pregnant
* Patient with mental retardation
* Patient allergic to contrast agents
* Patient who received sphincterotomy or pancreatobiliary operation previously
* Patient who have ampulla of Vater cancer
* Patient who have difficulty for the approach to ampulla due to abdominal surgery including stomach cancer with Billroth II anastomosis
* Patient who have pancreatic diseases as bellow (at least one more);
* acute pancreatitis within 30days before enrollment
* idiopathic acute recurrent pancreatitis
* pancreas divisum
* obstructive chronic pancreatitis
* pancreatic cancer
* Patients with Type-1, non-protruding Type-2 and Type-4 papilla