The normal gastric cardia: Fact or fiction?

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 443, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 693-694

  Villanacci, Vincenzo ^a   Giulini, Stefane Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CARDIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0345059773     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-003-0878-z     Document Type: Letter

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