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The complete curative surgical resection of cancer is the best therapy
. In most cases with new diagnosed cholangiocellular carcinoma this pr
ocedure will be not successful because of advanced illness. In those p
atients endoscopic treatment offers several procedures with advantage
to surgical palliative operation. Duration of hospitalisation, mortali
ty and technical expenditure are lower in most cases in comparison to
surgical procedures and the functional results are the same.