Does Smoking Cannabis Increase the Risk of Barrett's Esophagus?
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Joshua Levy, Medical student, Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine, Trinity Health, 15 Montgomery Ave, Apt 4B, Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Tel: 314-580-7509, Email: joshualev@pcom.edu
Abstract
A case of 41-year-old African American male is described who was presented to the emergency room of a large academic urban hospital with abdominal pain and exacerbation of nausea and vomiting which he had experienced episodically over the last two years.
Keywords: Cannabis; Barrett’s esophagus; Esophageal metaplasia
Citation: Levy J, Buhl K, Fernandez C, Kumaraswamy J (2020) Does Smoking Cannabis Increase the Risk of Barrett’s Esophagus?. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 10: 608.
Copyright: © 2020 Levy J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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