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Book review
Pathology of the Esophagus
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Pathology of the Esophagus. K Takubo (Pp 299; illustrated). Japan: Educa, 2000. ISBN 4 87006 011 6.
While the oesophagus has provided much interest to physicians and surgeons, particularly since the advent of endoscopy, manometry, and pH monitoring, to many pathologists it remained a muscular tube of relative pathological disinterest. Perhaps compared with the stomach and the intestines there is a relative paucity of interesting pathological conditions to study. Barrett's oesophagus has certainly …