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Esophageal varices
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.