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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by grants from the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2006BAI02A00) Key project of Health Bureau of Zhejiang Province (No. 20084005) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (No. 2007GZY0699).

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital & Jiangxi Cancer Institute, Nanchang, 330029, People’s Republic of China

    Jun Li

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, 250021, People’s Republic of China

    Jun Li, Fanying Liu, Zhou Wang & Xiangyan Liu

  3. Department of Pathology, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, 250021, People’s Republic of China

    Yongkang Wang

  4. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Lung Cancer Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, People’s Republic of China

    Qian Liu & Qinghua Zhou

  5. Jiangxi Cancer Institute, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, 330029, People’s Republic of China

    Xuesen Zou

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Li, J., Liu, F., Wang, Z. et al. Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Esophagus—GI Image. J Gastrointest Surg 14, 195–198 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-009-0893-8

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