 To determine degree of interobserver variability regarding characterization of variceal size between endoscopists, photographs of esophageal varices were taken during endoscopies and randomly selected images were circulated among 5 endoscopists, 2 with 5 years experience in practice and 3 with 15 years experience. The endoscopists were blinded to the results of the others interpretation and were asked to characterize the endoscopic images as either small,large, or absent varices. 