Sloughing esophagitis: a spectacular histologic and endoscopic disease without a uniform clinical correlation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1380, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 178-182

  Moawad, Fouad J ^a   Appleman, Henry D ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

esophagitis dissecans superficialis; parakeratosis; sloughing esophagitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; SLOUGHING ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 84978975985     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13112     Document Type: Article

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