Esophagogastric junction and its tumours – comments to definition and classification
Authors:
Petr Lochman; Tomáš Dušek; Jiří Páral
Authors‘ workplace:
Fakulta vojenského zdravotnictví UO v Brně, Hradec Králové
; Chirurgická klinika LF UK a FN Hradec Králové
Published in:
Čas. Lék. čes. 2018; 157: 84-89
Category:
Review Article
Overview
In spite of the worldwide decreasing incidence of gastric cancer the number of esophagogastric junction and proximal third of stomach carcinomas has been gradually growing up. The reason of that is an increasing incidence of reflux esophagitis with Barrett´s metaplasia and a successful eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection. The aim of this work is to provide various views on definition of the esophagogastric junction and to give an overview of tumours classification schemes being used.
Keywords:
gastric cancer, esophagogastric junction, definition, classification
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