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Endoscopy 2004; 36(8): 723-725
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825671
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825671
Editorial
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Eyes Wide Shut
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Publication History
Publication Date:
28 July 2004 (online)

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed u (Samuel Coleridge, 1772 - 1834)
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