Comparative Study of Intestinal Metaplasia and Mucin Staining at the Cardia and Esophagogastric Junction in 225 Symptomatic Patients Presenting for Diagnostic Open-Access Gastroscopy

Abstract

Intestinal metaplasia is very common at the esophagogastric junction and gastric cardia, with marked differences in incidence and characteristics of mucin staining between the two sites. The relationship of intestinal metaplasia to the development of carcinoma is yet to be determined.