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Oesophageal varices without bleeding in primary biliary cholangiopathy

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Link to WHO Definition

Oesophageal varices without bleeding in primary biliary cholangiopathy – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1350323507

These are extremely dilated sub-mucosal veins in the lower third of the oesophagus without bleeding in an autoimmune disease of the liver marked by the slow progressive destruction of the small bile ducts of the liver, with the intralobular ducts (Canals of Hering) affected early in the disease.