Low risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma among patients with ultrashort-segment Barrett's esophagus in Japan.
Sho FukudaKenta WatanabeTatsuki YoshidaSo TakahashiShusei FujimoriYouhei HorikawaTaiga KomatsuKenji ShiraneYosuke ShimodairaTamotsu MatsuhashiKatsunori IijimaPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2021)
Although the prevalence of USSBE is quite high (36.4%), the incidence of EAC in USSBE is very low (0.0068%/year). Accordingly, USSBE can be excluded from targets for endoscopic surveillance in Japan.