**11. Future areas**

HGMP/CIP remains a mysterious entity that have not been well studied compared to other esophageal disorders. Encouragingly, in the last decade, the number of publications on HGMP/CIP has been increasing. However most of these studies have only looked at the clinical and histological profiles without further addressing newer areas that can help to address the controversies that still surround HGMP/CIP. Future areas of interest include addressing the controversies that still surround HGMP/CIP. Other areas of interest are highlighted in Table 4.
