Beige mucosa observable under narrow-band imaging indicates the active sites of eosinophilic esophagitis.

Maki Ayaki Noriaki ManabeAkemi TomidaNaoya TadaTae MatsunagaMasayuki MurotaMinoru Fujita Ryo Katsumata Hideki Kobara Tsutomu Masaki Ken Haruma

Published in: Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2022)

Beige mucosa is associated with thinning of the normal superficial differentiated cell layer, and these histological changes in the active inflammatory sites of EoE could be recognized endoscopically as color differences. Beige mucosa may serve as an endoscopic indicator for predicting the histological activity of EoE.

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