Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication
A case of sudden death caused by hemorrhage into the chest cavity from a linear tear of the external esophageal wall following vomiting in a 20-year-old woman with congenital portal vein atresia is described. Compromise of the underlying esophageal wall due to recent sclerotherapy for bleeding varic...
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| description | A case of sudden death caused by hemorrhage into the chest
cavity from a linear tear of the external esophageal wall following vomiting in a
20-year-old woman with congenital portal vein atresia is described. Compromise
of the underlying esophageal wall due to recent sclerotherapy for bleeding varices
predisposed ro this highly unusual ‘adventitial’ variant of the Mallory-Weiss
syndrome. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-feb820363fc44ebe9163d34d0cad25602025-02-03T01:07:34ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology0835-79001989-01-0132586010.1155/1989/913276Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal ComplicationNigel H. Bramwell0Roger W. Byard1Department of Pathology, Ottawa General Hospital, University of ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Pathology, Ottawa General Hospital, University of ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaA case of sudden death caused by hemorrhage into the chest cavity from a linear tear of the external esophageal wall following vomiting in a 20-year-old woman with congenital portal vein atresia is described. Compromise of the underlying esophageal wall due to recent sclerotherapy for bleeding varices predisposed ro this highly unusual ‘adventitial’ variant of the Mallory-Weiss syndrome.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1989/913276 |
| spellingShingle | Nigel H. Bramwell Roger W. Byard Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology |
| title | Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication |
| title_full | Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication |
| title_fullStr | Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication |
| title_short | Hemothorax from External Rupture of Esophageal Varices: An Unusual Fatal Complication |
| title_sort | hemothorax from external rupture of esophageal varices an unusual fatal complication |
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