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Volume 63, Issue 10 , Pages 1142-1148, October 2008

J.-J. Pan
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
C. Chen
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
B. Geller
- Department of Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
R. Firpi
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
V.I. Machicao
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
J.G. Caridi
- Department of Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
D.R. Nelson
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
G. Morelli
- Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Section of Hepatobiliary Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Guarantor and correspondent: G. Morelli, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer Road, Room M440, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. Tel.: +1 352 392 7353; fax: +1 352 392 7393.