31.   All patients were treated endoscopically by injection treatment, whether they were actively bleeding or not.

32.   We chose to treat patients with CP associated biliary strictures with these devices for two reasons.

33.   Indeed, as these stents are not removable and because we are treating patients with benign disease, we did not want to compromise a potential surgical biliary diversion.

34.   In the complex group nine patients were treated under local anaesthesia.

35.   The patient was treated in prone position without narcosis.

36.   Each patient was treated with placebo, ranitidine, and ranitidine plus cisapride in a double blind, double dummy, within subject, three way cross over design.

37.   We decided to treat the patient with combination chemotherapy.

38.   One patient was treated with sulphasalazine and one with lidocaine enema.

39.   All the patients were treated in the prone position, with the shock waves entering from the ventral side.

40.   Patients were treated with antibiotics.