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Endoscopic Management of Pre-invasive Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

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A 50-year old white male presents for surveillance endoscopy for Barrett’s esophagus. He was diagnosed with Barrett’s esophagus 3 years ago after he underwent upper endoscopy for longstanding heartburn. Biopsies from the esophagus then showed intestinal metaplasia with no dysplasia. Currently, upper endoscopy reveals columnar mucosa in the distal 6 cm of the esophagus with no discernible mucosal nodularity. Biopsies show high grade dysplasia. He has no other complaints or comorbidities and physical examination is unremarkable.

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Vikneswaran, N., Wang, K.K. (2011). Endoscopic Management of Pre-invasive Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. In: Fitzgerald, R. (eds) Pre-Invasive Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6694-0_12

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