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Stephanie L Hansel1, G Anton Decker, Arthur D Shiff

  • 1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
|March 17, 2009
PubMed
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