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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical Perspective
The condition is named after Dr. Norman Barrett (1903–1979), Australian-born British surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, who described the condition in 1957.[1]
Norman Barrett, in 1950, defined the esophagus as, ‘that part of the foregut, distal to the cricopharyngeal sphincter, which is lined by squamous epithelium’. It is ironic, then, that columnar metaplasia of the esophagus is referred to as Barrett’s esophagus (BE). Tileston, however, was the first to describe columnar metaplasia of the esophagus in 1906, as ‘peptic ulcer of the esophagus’.