Intestinal metaplasia is the probable common precursor of adenocarcinoma in Barrett esophagus and adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia
โ Scribed by Alberto Ruol; Anna Parenti; Giovanni Zaninotto; Stefano Merigliano; Mario Costantini; Matteo Cagol; Rita Alfieri; Luigi Bonavina; Alberto Peracchia; Ermanno Ancona
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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