Medical Must-See: Doctors in the dark about patient’s black oesophagus
It's always darkest before the oesophagogastric junction, or so the saying goes
A woman in the US was already feeling off-colour when doctors incidentally discovered her extremely rare black oesophagus.
The 60-year-old had a history of coronary artery disease, ischaemic cardiomyopathy, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, SCC of the cervix and a recent choledocholithiasis, for which she had undergone endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography several weeks earlier.
