The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Practice: Guidelines for the Management of Barrett's Esophagus With High-Grade Dysplasia is designed to assist physicians and other health care providers in clinical decision-making by describing a range of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis, management, or prevention of specific diseases or conditions.

The standard of care has traditionally been esophagectomy. However, a number of treatment options aimed at esophageal preservation are increasingly being utilized by many centers. These esophageal-sparing approaches include:

* Methods
* Endoscopic Surveillance
* Mucosal ablation
* Endoscopic mucosal resection
* Physical Examination
* Patient Selection for Surveillance
* Biopsy Protocol
* Pathologist Interpretation of High-Grade Dysplasia
* Morbidity and Mortality of Esophagectomy Specifically for HGD
* Overall Survival of Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy for Preoperative Diagnosis of High-grade Dysplasia
* and more ...