White flat lesions in the gastric corpus may be intestinal metaplasia

Endoscopy 2017; 49(06): 617-618
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-108549

Letter to the editor

Pedro Pimentel-Nunes

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

²Department of Surgery and Physiology, Porto Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal

³CINTESIS/ Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Porto Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal

,

Daniela Dobru

⁴University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tg. Mures, Romania

,

Diogo Libânio

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

³CINTESIS/ Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Porto Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal

,

Mário Dinis-Ribeiro

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

³CINTESIS/ Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Porto Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal

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