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 ...

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 ...

Diverticulosis is a condition that affects the large intestine. It causes small pouches to form along the lining of the intestine and push through the intestinal wall. It is very common and often does ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...