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The Latest Issue of Foregut is Now Available!Volume 3, Issue 2 – Disparities in Benign and Malignant Foregut Disease
The AFS Journal is available to all current AFS members. Please log in to the AFS site with your member profile and select AFS Journal from the site menu under Library to access the Journal.
AFS's official journal Foregut is soliciting papers for the following themed issues that will be published in 2024:
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The AFS announces a new endoscopic classification of the esophagogastric junction. The classification recognizes that the antireflux barrier involves the crural diaphragm and intrinsic lower esophageal sphincter in addition to the flap valve classification as described by Hill. It stratifies EGJ integrity from normal (grade 1) to increasing degrees of EGJ disruption (grade 2-4) beginning with loss of the flap valve and progressing to increasing degrees of crural disruption and hiatus hernia. It also stipulates appropriate endoscopic methodology for the assessment and provides a basic nomenclature for communication among endoscopists. |
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