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. 2018 Jan 25;21(5):879–888. doi: 10.1007/s10120-018-0798-x

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Fig. 1 — The entire stomach was scanned in five steps. Step 1, which was mainly for scanning the cardia. Step 2, which was mainly for scanning the gastric fundus. Step 3, for scanning the gastric fundus, body, and antrum in serial transverse section. Step 4, for scanning the fundus, body, and antrum in serial coronal section. Step 5, which was for scanning the antrum and pylorus. Steps 3 and 4 were the key steps, respectively, obtaining serial transverse and coronal sections of the whole stomach, including the gastric fundus, body, angle, and antrum