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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2004;80:734-735; doi:10.1136/pgmj.2003.018432
© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
Postgraduate Medical Journal 2004;80:734-735
© 2004 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

CASE REPORT

Oesophageal haematoma and associated Mallory-Weiss tear

C H Lim, S M Everett

Centre for Digestive Disease, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

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Correspondence to:
Dr Chee H Lim
Room 190A, Gastroenterology Department, Clarendon Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; ch.lim{at}virgin.net

Intramural oesophageal haematoma is a rare condition that may present as vomiting or haematemesis. Mallory-Weiss tear has been proposed as a possible aetiology but the evidence to support this is circumstantial. A case of oesophageal haematoma associated with evidence of Mallory-Weiss tear on endoscopy that helps to support this hypothesis is presented.

Keywords: oesophageal haematoma; Mallory-Weiss tear; upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage


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