Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 61, Issue 7 , Pages 795-801 , June 2005

Association of eosinophilic inflammation with esophageal food impaction in adults

Received 28 September 2004 ,Accepted 31 January 2005.

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 See CME section; p. 872.Supported by National Institutes of Health grant DK062245.This work was presented, in part, at Digestive Diseases Week, May 19-23, 2002, San Francisco, California.

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