Helicobacter pylori Has an Inverse Relationship With Severity of Reflux Esophagitis
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CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Su Youn Nam, MD, PhD Department of Gastroenterology, Center for Cancer Prevention and Detection, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 411-769, Korea Tel: +82-31-920-1608, Fax: +82-31-920-0451, E-mail: [email protected] Financial support: None. Conflicts of interest: None. Helicobacter pylori Has an Inverse Relationship With Severity of Reflux Esophagitis
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