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  • Title: Retrocardiac densities due to paraesophageal varices: roentgenographic detection.
    Author: Frederick HM, Clements JL, Colvin RS.
    Journal: South Med J; 1985 Nov; 78(11):1371-2. PubMed ID: 4071150.
    Abstract:
    We have described a patient with portal hypertension and retrocardiac paramediastinal density on upright PA chest x-ray film. Splenoportograms showed this density to be paraesophageal collateral veins.
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