3093 Epiphrenic Diverticula: An Added Source of Complexity in Achalasia Management
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Achalasia associated with two epiphrenic diverticula
Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old, previously healthy, female patient who sought treatment at a general surgery outpatient clinic complaining of an approximate one-year history of dysphagia for solids. An upper gastrointestinal series showed achalasia and two diverticula in the distal esophagus (Figure 1). Those findings were also documented by computed tomography (Figure 2) and upper ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0002-9270,1572-0241
DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000601904.73185.8d