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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Volume 2015, Article ID 517690, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/517690
Clinical Study

Treatment of Internal Hemorrhoids by Endoscopic Sclerotherapy with Aluminum Potassium Sulfate and Tannic Acid

Yuichi Tomiki, Seigo Ono, Jun Aoki, Rina Takahashi, Shun Ishiyama, Kiichi Sugimoto, Yukihiro Yaginuma, Yutaka Kojima, Michitoshi Goto, Atsushi Okuzawa, and Kazuhiro Sakamoto

Department of Coloproctological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan

Received 30 April 2015; Revised 27 June 2015; Accepted 1 July 2015

Academic Editor: P. J. O’Dwyer

Copyright © 2015 Yuichi Tomiki 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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