TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Surgery and Endoscopic Interventions for Barrett Esophagus A1 - Auyang, Edward D. A1 - Oelschlager, Brant K. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Colson, Yolonda L. A2 - Jaklitsch, Michael T. A2 - Krasna, Mark J. A2 - Mentzer, Steven J. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann PY - 2015 T2 - Adult Chest Surgery, 2e AB - Barrett esophagus (BE) is a condition in which the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus is replaced by intestinal columnar epithelium, a process called intestinal metaplasia (IM). Dr. Norman Barrett, an Australian thoracic surgeon, characterized the findings in an article that he published in 1950.1 In 1953, the association was made between BE and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) by the English thoracic surgeon Dr. Philip Allison.2 The etiology of BE is accepted to be due to chronic exposure of the esophageal epithelium to gastroduodenal refluxate. The importance of BE is its potential to progress and develop into adenocarcinoma. The association between BE and esophageal adenocarcinoma was established in a case report in 1975 by Dr. Alan Farnsworth, a cardiac surgeon, in which he identified adenocarcinoma in a segment of BE.3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105840255 ER -