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Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease
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English
Etymology
First described by Pégot in 1833, and then by Jean Cruveilhier (1835) and Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1907).
Noun
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A rare medical condition in which the umbilical or paraumbilical veins are distended, with an abdominal wall bruit (the Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit) and palpable thrill, portal hypertension with splenomegaly, hypersplenism and oesophageal varices, with a normal or small liver.
en Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome Pégot-Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease
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