If Pills Don't Work, Try Staples: Surgery for Barrett's Esophagus Complicating Progressive Systemic Sclerosis

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 999, Santiago, Chile. ibraghet@hcuch.cl.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA.
³ University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Gastroenterology Division, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 999, Santiago, Chile.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
⁷ Department of Surgery, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Italo Braghetto et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2023 Oct.

. 2023 Oct;68(10):3879-3885.

doi: 10.1007/s10620-023-08064-3. Epub 2023 Aug 27.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 999, Santiago, Chile. ibraghet@hcuch.cl.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA.
³ University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Gastroenterology Division, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 999, Santiago, Chile.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
⁷ Department of Surgery, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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