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Oesophageal varices without bleeding in schistosomiasis

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Link to WHO Definition

Oesophageal varices without bleeding in schistosomiasis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1465079346

These are extremely dilated sub-mucosal veins in the lower third of the oesophagus without bleeding in a parasitic disease caused by several species of trematodes (platyhelminth infection, or "flukes"), a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma.