ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2019
Issues and controversies in esophageal inlet patch.
Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05131932 (Ablation of Esophageal Inlet Patches in Patients Referred for pH-Testing Due to Possible Extra-Esophageal Symptoms of Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Ablation of Esophageal Inlet Patches in Patients Referred for pH-Testing Due to Possible Extra-Esophageal Symptoms of Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of fully circumferential inlet patches (heterotopic gastric mucosa): More complicated than regular inlet patches.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2025Pooled it
- Endoscopic resection of an adenoma arising in cervical inlet patch: a case report.Future science OA · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary treatment of advanced cervical esophageal adenocarcinoma derived from a gastric inlet patch: A case report.Oncology letters · 2024Article
- Not Every Dyspepsia Is Related toChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Symptoms of Chronic Dysphagia Secondary to Multiple Cervical Inlet Patches and Esophageal Stricture.Cureus · 2023Article
- Recurrent esophageal adenocarcinoma derived from ectopic gastric mucosa: A case report.Thoracic cancer · 2022Article
- Submucosal gastric heterotopia presenting as an upper esophageal nodule.Journal of surgical case reports · 2021Article
- A Rare Location for Heterotopic Gastric Mucosa.JPGN reports · 2021Article
- An Uncommon Cause of Esophageal Dysphagia and Food Impaction.Dysphagia · 2021Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The proximal esophagus is rarely examined, and its inspection is often inadequate. Optical chromoendoscopy techniques such as narrow band imaging improve the detection rate of inlet patches in the proximal esophagus, a region in which their prevalence is likely underestimated. Various studies have reported correlations between these esophageal marks with different issues such as Barrett's esophagus, but these findings remain controversial. Conflicting reports complicate the process of interpreting the clinical features of esophageal inlet patches and underestimate their importance. Unfortunately, the limited clinical data and statistical analyses make reaching any conclusions difficult. It is hypothesized that inlet patches are correlated with various esophageal and extraesophageal symptoms, diagnoses and the personalized therapeutic management of patients with inlet patches as well as the differential diagnosis for premalignant lesions or early cancers. Due to its potential underdiagnosis, there are no consensus guidelines for the management and follow up of inlet patches. This review focuses on questions that were raised from published literature on esophageal inlet patches in adults.
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