Characteristics of cardiac epithelium at the esophagogastric junction of a pediatric population with gastroesophageal reflux.

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Cardiac mucosa (CM) of the adult, regardless its location, shares phenotypic characteristics with Barrett's epithelium, namely villin expression and a Barrett's pattern of cytokeratins 7 and 20 expression. As far as we know, the phenotypic profile of CM in children has not been studied. The objective was to evaluate the phenotypic profile of cardiac mucosa from the esophagogastric junction of children with reflux...

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