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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;At December&amp;nbsp;31, accrued expenses consisted of the following: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;63,013&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;117,491&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;92,287&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accrued product sales returns allowances&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;81,885&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;66,033&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accrued sales and marketing costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;37,468&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;30,971&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accrued license fees and royalties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;44,280&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;22,424&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;54,077&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accrued clinical trial fees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;13,657&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;9,812&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accrued research and development&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,661&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,935&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Other accrued expenses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;79,264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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</NonNumbericText><NonNumericTextHeader>13. ACCRUED EXPENSES
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;At December&amp;nbsp;31, accrued expenses consisted of the following:


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