"Downhill" oesophagus varices: a clue to a serious disease.
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.
Bos
G M
GM
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Saleh
A
A
Schouten
H C
HC
van Deursen
C T
CT
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed