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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2019.086

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Columnar metaplasia and Barrett’s esophagus: morphological heterogeneity and immunohistochemical phenotype

Mikhaleva LM1,2, Voytkovskaya KS2, Fedorov ED2,3, Gracheva NA2, Birukov AE1,2, Shidiy-Zakrua AV3, Guschin MYu1
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1 Research Institute of Human Morphology, Moscow, Russia

2 Municipal Clinical Hospital no. 31, Moscow, Russia

3 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Ludmila M. Mikhaleva
Tsyuryupy 3, Moscow, 117418; ur.xednay@mlavelahkim

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Author contribution: Mikhaleva LM — planned and supervised the study; provided equipment for the study; analyzed the obtained results; Voytkovskaya KS — analyzed the literature; collected, analyzed and interpreted the obtained data; processed microphotographs and wrote the manuscript; Fedorov ED — examined the patients; performed EGD and biopsy; analyzed and summarized the data; Shidiy-Zakrua AV — examined the patients, performed EGD and biopsy; Birukov AE — and Gracheva NA — performed pathological examination; Guschin MY — analyzed the literature.

Received: 2019-12-03 Accepted: 2019-12-18 Published online: 2019-12-26
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