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Accrued Expenses - Schedule of Accrued Expenses (Parenthetical) (Detail)	Jun. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Payables and Accruals [Abstract]
Maximum percentage of current liabilities accrued (in hundredths)	5.00%	5.00%	5.00%

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Maximum percentage of various single other accrued expenses to the aggregate current liabilities.

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