The mucosa/submucosa is freed from esophageal muscle, by sharp dissection at the level of the submucosa. Segments of the mucosal tube are tied at both ends, forming a closed sac with the squamous ...

As in both the oral cavity and in the pharynx, the mucosal surface of the esophagus is lined by stratified squamous epithelium that is nonkeratinized in man. In herbivores, the esophagus has a ...

or adenocarcinomas (cancer arising from the glandular cells of the oesophagus submucosa). Ganguli et al. show that CDKN2A loss in Barrett’s esophagus prevents esophageal adenocarcinoma ...