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Date Added: August 01, 2008 06:36:03 AM
OAK BROOK, Ill. – July 31, 2008 – A multicenter U.S. registry study examining the treatment of Barrett's esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) showed that in 92 patients treated with endoscopic circumferential ablation who had at least one follow-up biopsy session, 90.2 percent were free of HGD at an average of one-year follow-up.

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