A 69-year-old woman presented with a large, deep area of skin necrosis on the right breast. One month earlier, the patient had undergone a surgical treatment for a frontal-parietal meningioma.

Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), often referred to as "black esophagus" or Gurvits syndrome, is a rare but serious condition characterized by the necrosis (death) of the esophageal mucosa.

WINS must be differentiated from all other causes of acute thrombosis with skin necrosis, including acute necrotizing fascitis, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy with purpura fulminans ...