title: Ruptured esophageal varices caused by metastatic liver tumors.
abstract: We herein report a case of a 50-year-old male with hematemesis due to the rupture from esophageal varices coexisting with multiple liver tumors metastasizing from sigmoid colon cancer. The causal etiology of esophageal varices rupture in the current case was considered to be the intrahepatic portal hypertension brought by the stagnation of the blood flow of the intrahepatic portal vein suppressed by the metastatic liver tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan. nozoet@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tadahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nozoe
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumata
authors.forename: Keizo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimachi
mesh_terms: D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016558:Hemostasis, Endoscopic / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000209:etiology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015911:Sclerotherapy; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome