A Summary of the 2016 James W. Freston Conference of the American Gastroenterological Association: Intestinal Metaplasia in the Esophagus and Stomach: Origins, Differences, Similarities and Significance

Overview

Journal Gastroenterology

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2017 Jun 7

PMID 28583825

Citations 12

Authors

Stuart J Spechler

Juanita L Merchant

Timothy C Wang

Parakrama Chandrasoma

James G Fox

Robert M Genta

James R Goldenring

Yoku Hayakawa

Ernst J Kuipers

Pauline K Lund

Frank McKeon

Jason C Mills

Robert D Odze

Richard M Peek Jr

Thai Pham

Jianwen Que

Anil K Rustgi

Nicholas J Shaheen

Ramesh A Shivdasani

Rhonda F Souza

Peter Storz

Andrea Todisco

David H Wang

Nicholas A Wright

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