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. 2018 Apr 30;190(17):E542.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.171339.

Eosinophilic esophagitis

Thurarshen Jeyalingam  1 , Samir C Grover  2
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Eosinophilic esophagitis

Thurarshen Jeyalingam et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Samir Grover has received grants from Abbvie and Janssen, personal fees from Abbvie and Takeda, and is owner and has shares in Volō Healthcare, outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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Figure 1:
Circular rings and furrows in the esophagus (trachealization) may be visible on endoscopy for eosinophilic esophagitis.
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