The oesophagus (gullet) is the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach and is lined by cells like those that form the skin (squamous cells). In Barrett’s oesophagus the lining at the lower end of the gullet is found to have changed from being skin-like to being like the lining of the stomach. It was first identified in the early 1950’s by a surgeon called Norman Barrett. The more scientific name is columnar-lined oesophagus (CLO).
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