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Abstract
Of an autopsy material of 4242 patients from Turku University Clinics during the years 1945-1959, there were 63 cases of liver cirrhosis and 36 of oesophageal varices. In 49% of the former, there were varices and in 86% of the varices cases, liver cirrhosis was found. 37% of the cirrhosis patients died from the varices, 56% of the varices patients. The first bleeding has proved fatal in 70% of the cases. Correct clinical diagnosis was made before autopsy in about 40% of the cases.
The authors stress that a more thorough examination of the oesophagus by means of radiography and oesophagoscopy should be made in all cases in which liver cirrhosis or haemorrhage of the digestive tract has been observed.