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Despite some controversial on the nature of cardiac mucosa, the overwhelming high-quality evidence from studies in fetus, newborns, children, and adults in various ethnic populations has firmly established the congenital nature of this mucosa with a few new features: (1) the length of cardiac mucosa is much shorter than previously believed; (2) the distrisbution pattern of cardiac mucosa varies among different populations with a more predominant presence in the gastric cardia in the East Asian population, compared to the Western Caucasian population; (3) cardiac mucosa is plastic and dynamic in response to changes in local microenvironment that modify its length and distribution patterns.

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Huang, Q. (2018). Cardiac Mucosa. In: Huang, Q. (eds) Gastric Cardiac Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79114-2_2

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