Barrett's oesophagus is a condition in which there is gastric or intestinal metaplasia of the mucosa of the distal oesophagus.
Barrett's oesophagus can be classified according to the segment of metaplastic columnar epithelium that replaces the stratified squamous epithelium normally lining the distal oesophagus:
Characteristics associated with Barrett esophagus include (3):
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