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Esophageal varices

E C Fearnow¹, S A DeLuca

¹Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

American Family Physician

|July 1, 1989

Abstract:

Barium swallow is generally used to demonstrate esophageal varices, which appear as serpiginous filling defects in the distal esophagus and cardia of the stomach. Angiography is used for pre- and postoperative shunt evaluation.

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