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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 194530, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/194530
Research Article

Evaluation of Endoscopic Ultrasound Image Quality Is Necessary in Endosonographic Assessment of Early Gastric Cancer Invasion Depth

Shunsuke Yamamoto,1,2 Tsutomu Nishida,1 Motohiko Kato,1 Takuya Inoue,1 Yoshito Hayashi,1 Jumpei Kondo,1 Tomofumi Akasaka,1 Takuya Yamada,1 Shinichiro Shinzaki,1 Hideki Iijima,1 Masahiko Tsujii,1 and Tetsuo Takehara1

1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan
2Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, 1179-3, Nagasonecho, Kita-ku, Sakai, Osaka 5918025, Japan

Received 12 April 2012; Accepted 21 August 2012

Academic Editor: Salem Omar

Copyright © 2012 Shunsuke Yamamoto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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