Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers-a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden.

For the first time, we demonstrate that patients with esophageal inflammatory and other metaplastic abnormalities than Barrett's esophagus have an increased risk of EAC and GCA compared to the general population. Moreover, patients with different histopathologic subtypes of Barrett's esophagus have a comparable risk for EAC.