Table 2.

Characteristics of patients with incomplete (1–6) and complete (7–11) intestinal metaplasia (IM) at the squamocolumnar junction (SCJ)

No	Age (y)	Sex	Hiatal hernia	Erosive oesophagitis	Histological oesophagitis	Distal gastritis	SCJ as reported visually
1	33	M	Yes	No	—	No	Small tongues
2	35	M	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	SSBE
3	37	M	Yes	No	Yes	No	Tongues >5 mm
4	37	F	Yes	No	No	No	Tongues >5 mm
5	38	F	Yes	No	Yes	No	Small tongues
6	45	M	No	Yes	No	Yes*	Irritated
7	22	M	No	No	Yes	No	Small tongues
8	24	F	No	No	No	No	Small tongues
9	33	F	Yes	No	No	No	Normal
10	34	F	No	No	No	No	Irritated
11	42	F	No	No	No	Yes†	Normal

*Patient with mild reactive gastritis in the antrum and a normal corpus.

†Patient with autoimmune-type atrophic corpus gastritis and with IM in the corpus.

SSBE, short segment Barrett’s oesophagus.