Images in clinical medicine. Tortuous varicosities in chronic schistosomiasis

N Engl J Med. 2009 Aug 6;361(6):e9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm0803551.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen / blood supply*
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Chronic Disease
  • Esophageal and Gastric Varices / etiology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Portal / etiology*
  • Male
  • Schistosoma mansoni / isolation & purification
  • Schistosomiasis mansoni / complications*
  • Varicose Veins / etiology*
  • Varicose Veins / pathology