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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 454717, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/454717
Review Article

A Review on the Use of Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy in the Bile Duct

Ioana Smith,1 Pamela E. Kline,2 Monica Gaidhane,2 and Michel Kahaleh2,3

1Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
2Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
3Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA

Received 12 January 2012; Accepted 28 February 2012

Academic Editor: A. Castells

Copyright © 2012 Ioana Smith 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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