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Oesophageal Varices caused by Liver Metastases
As in liver cirrhosis, the portal pressure can be elevated also in a metastatic liver disease, causing dilatiation of the oesophageal weins.
This patient has a carcinoma of the mammae and disseminated metastasis of her liver.
This is of couse a very serious finding, however, these dilatated weins do not usually bleed, as in liver cirrhoses due to other reasons.
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