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A 44-year-old man with known stricturing gastroduodenal Crohn’s disease with prior dilations who is receiving maximal medical therapy is admitted for increasing upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. On endoscopy, obstructing duodenal stricture is noted. The esophagogastroduodenoscopy scope could not traverse this area. After nasogastric decompression, his best treatment option is:
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