Barretts's oesophagus

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Eyal, Paula

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Health and Medical Publishing Group

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Barrett's oesophagus (BO) is defined as the occurrence of metaplastic, specialised columnar epithelium lining the distal part of the oesophagus. Evidence points to this as a metaplastic condition in reaction to ulceration and re-epithelialisation, the columnar epithelium replacing the normal stratified squamous epithelium.

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Barretts’s oesophagus

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Eyal, P 2012, 'Barretts's oesophagus', CME : Continuing Medical Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 71-72.