Multiple white flat lesions in the gastric corpus are not intestinal metaplasia

Endoscopy 2017; 49(06): 615-616
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-106434

Letter to the editor

Noriya Uedo

¹Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

²Department of Endoscopy, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan

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Rino Yamaoka

²Department of Endoscopy, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan

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Kenshi Yao

²Department of Endoscopy, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan

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