Barrett’s Esophagus and Cardiac Intestinal Metaplasia: Two Conditions within the Same Spectrum
- Nicole White
- Manal Gabril
- Gershon Ejeckam
- Maria Mathews
- John Fardy
- Fady Kamel
- Jules Doré
- George M Yousef
Publication date
January 2008
DOI Publisher
Hindawi Limited ISSN
0835-7900 Journal
issn:0835-7900 Citation count (estimate)
11Abstract
BACKGROUND: Immunostaining for cytokeratin 7 (CK7) and cytokeratin 20 (CK20) has a characteristic pattern in Barrett’s esophagus (BE), but reports regarding its sensitivity and specificity are inconsistent. Intestinal metaplasia of the gastric cardia (CIM) is histologically similar to BE, but with no abnormal endoscopic findings
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