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Good luck and let's get into esophagus and welcome back to another

behind the knife ab site review today we were doing esophagus and we are

lucky enough to have with us Jason Bingham we and myself Kevin Canary. Jason, take it away.

Okay, so behind the nice ab sites and border view esophagus. So as always, starting with some high-yield anatomy so whoa layers of the esophagus from inside to outside

So from inside to out you have the mucosa the sub-mucosa and the muscularis prop. The key here to remember is that there is no

serosa.

Right, so this is one of the parts of the GI track where this no serosa and that's very

important. Why, Kevin? The importance of having no serosa is that it spreads through the

sub mucosal lymphatics cancer. Right so you don't have that that extra barrier and

you have a very rich lymphatic system there so it has to do with the spread of

malignancy.

So this is one of the parts of the body that has multiple different blood supplies from different origins. So Kevin, walk us through what the

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