abstractintroduction: hyperplastic polyps of the esophago-gastric junction are seen during endoscopic evaluation of upper gastrointestinal tract. they are usually asymptomatic and discovered accidentally during endoscopic evaluation for other problems. these protrusions are mucosal regenerative response to surrounding mucosal injury. case: here we present a 9-year-old boy presenting with abdomi...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Over the past few decades, the incidence of adenocarcinomas of the gastroesophageal junction has rapidly increased. Barrett's esophagus is a risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the role of intestinal metaplasia of the gastric cardia as a precursor in cardia-related cancer is controversial. The aims of the present study were to examine the prevalence of intestinal me...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Intestinal metaplasia (IM) at the cardia is likely to be a precursor of cardia cancer. Previous work has shown that it is associated with chronic inflammation attributable to either gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) or Helicobacter pylori infection. An alternative aetiological factor is bile reflux. Duodenogastric reflux brings about histological changes in the gastri...

BACKGROUND Reports of dramatic increases in gastric cardia cancer incidence warrant concern. However, the recent introduction of a separate diagnostic code, the lack of a consensus definition of the cardia area, and the accelerating interest in cardia cancer may affect classification practices. Little is known about the magnitude of cardia cancer misclassification in large cancer registries. ...

Gastric cancer including the cardia and non-cardia types is the second frequent cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. A subset of non-cardia gastric cancer genetic susceptibility loci have been addressed among Asian through genome-wide association studies (GWASs). This study was to evaluate the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) o...

INTRODUCTION Adenocarcinomas of the cardia are the lesions arising from the proximal stomach or within 3cm of the gastroesophageal junction. These cancers tended to be advanced at the time of presentation, usually with poor prognosis. In recent decade, the incidence of adenocarcinoma of gastric cardia and esophagus are increasing steadily, while there has been a decrease in the proportion of th...

Adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and gastric cardia have increased in incidence over the past 10-15 years in Western countries. The cause for this increase in incidence is still unknown. Our study was designed to investigate potential risk factors for adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and gastric cardia and to compare the risk profiles of a group of patients with this cancer with those having di...

AIM To determine specific volumetric laser endomicroscopy (VLE) imaging features associated with neoplasia at the gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) and gastric cardia. METHODS During esophagogastroduodenoscopy for patients with known or suspected Barrett's esophagus, VLE was performed before biopsies were taken at endoscopists' discretion. The gastric cardia was examined on VLE scan from the GE...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of metastatic gastric cancer is unexplored because cancer registries seldom cover metastatic involvement apart from "present or not". We used a novel approach by utilizing Swedish registers to assess metastatic spread in gastric cancer. To our knowledge, this is the first nationwide description of metastases in gastric cancer. RESULTS The most common sites of metas...