HAeMATEMESIS BY EXHALATION, PROVING FATAL AFTER THIRTEEN HOURS
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Fatal haematemesis due to benign retrosternal goitre.
The development of a goitre in the retrosternal space may result in many different symptoms due to local compression. We describe a case in which such a goitre resulted in full-thickness ulceration of the oesophagus, which presented as a fatal haematemesis. We believe that such a complication has not been previously reported.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1854
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s3-2.70.390