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Vincent Quentin1, Emilie Lermite, Jerome Lebigot

  • 1Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, 4 rue Larrey, 49933 Angers Cedex 9, France.

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
|February 27, 2007
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