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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2011 Aug 9;106(11):1899–1909. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2011.255

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Endoscopic photograph of Barrett's esophagus using narrow band imaging. The metaplastic columnar (Barrett's) epithelium is dark, and the squamous epithelium is light. Notice the squamous islands, which presumably develop as a consequence of biopsy sampling of metaplastic epithelium during endoscopic surveillance.