Background and aims: Intestinal metaplasia (IM) at the cardia is likely to be a precursor ... We accepted as cardia those biopsies composed of gastric-type foveolar and surface epithelium overlying ...

Barrett’s oesophagus is the major risk factor. Intestinal metaplasia at the squamocolumnar junction in the absence of Barrett’s oesophagus is common but its relation to adenocarcinoma and ...

Additionally, erosions and cysts may be found in non-neoplastic mucosa. In most prophylactic gastrectomies reported so far, intestinal metaplasia and H pylori infection are absent (families from North ...

5 Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Dr D Jackson Coleman, Department of Ophthalmology, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia ...