Dear Doctor: I have a Zenker's diverticulum that, after 10 years, seems to be very large, judging by the volume it holds. At virtually every meal, I choke on food clogged in my esophagus, then I ...

Endoscopy revealed no mass and a distal esophageal diverticulum with a 2- to 3-cm neck approximately 3 cm above the gastroesophageal junction. Proximal to the diverticulum, the esophagus was modestly ...

About one or two percent of patients under 30 experience diverticulosis while people age 60 and older have some degree of the condition. Diverticulosis refers to small outpouching in the colon called ...

THE treatment of esophagopharyngeal diverticulum continues to be an interesting surgical problem. For the majority of practitioners interest in the subject arises out of the comparative rarity of the ...

Dear Doctor: I have a Zenker’s diverticulum that, after 10 years, seems to be very large, judging by the volume it holds. At virtually every meal, I choke on food clogged in my esophagus, then I ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, ...

An article in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology examines the distribution of colonic diverticula. 1. The research team examined patients undergoing screening colonoscopy at the University of ...

Our approach uses 5 ports. After dividing the short gastric vessels, we dissect free the mediastinal esophagus and the diverticulum. It is important to free all the adhesions from the diverticulum to ...