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Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease or Pégot-Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease is 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.It was first described by Pégot in 1833 and then by Jean Cruveilhier (1835) and Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1907).Armstrong et al.

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