Steven R. DeMeester

TL;DR: The fact that the samples from these two groups of patients were histologically indistinguishable, yet molecularly distinct, suggests that the occurrence of such hypermethylation may provide a clinical tool to identify patients with premalignant Barrett's who are at risk for further progression.

TL;DR: The number of lymph nodes removed is an independent predictor of survival after esophagectomy for cancer, and to maximize this survival benefit a minimum of 23 regional lymph nodes must be removed.

TL;DR: Laroscopic repair of type III hiatal hernias is associated with a disturbingly high (42%) prevalence of recurrent hernia and more than half such recurrences have few, if any, symptoms.

TL;DR: The guidelines for the management of hiatal hernia are a series of systematically developed statements to assist physicians’ and patients’ decisions about the appropriate use of laparoscopic surgery for hiatAL hernia.

TL;DR: The extent of disease associated with tumors confined to the mucosa and submucosa provides justification for more limited and less morbid resections and can be achieved in more than half the patients who undergo en bloc resection.