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Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Comprehensive Review.
Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology - 1 Apr 2016
Cianferoni Antonella, Spergel Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an emerging chronic atopic clinical-pathologic disease with an estimated prevalence of 1/1000 similar to the one of Crohn's diseases. Usually, EoE is firstly suspected due to symptoms that are caused by esophageal dysfunction and/or fibrosis. EoE diagnosis is confirmed if the esophageal biopsy shows at least 15 eosinophils per high power field (eos/hpf) as a peak value in one or...
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