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"Downhill" oesophagus varices: a clue to a serious disease
G M Bos1, A Saleh, H C Schouten
1Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Maastricht, Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Downhill oesophagus varices are rarely observed. In this report a patient is described with downhill oesophagus varices in the absence of the vena cava superior syndrome. The observation of these varices was the clue to the diagnosis of a serious disease: a malignant thymoma.