THORACIC DIVERTICULA WHICH ORIGINATE FROM THE INTESTINE

False Diverticula of the Intestine

Diverticula of the intestine may be divided into the true and the false. By a true diverticulum is understood one the walls of which are composed of the entire thickness of the intestine; the false diverticulum, on the other hand, is a hernia of the mucosa and submucosa through the muscular wall (yon Rokitansky (1), Leichtenstern (2), Birch-Hirschfeld (3), Orth (34), Itansemann (4), and others)...

Diverticula and Diverticulitis of the Intestine

The original intrathymic progenitor from which T cells originate.

Surgical Treatment of Diverticula of the Mid-thoracic Esophagus, with Special References to Their Pathogenesis.

Oesophageal motor dysfunction in patients with diverticula of the mid-thoracic oesophagus.

Kaye, M. D. (1974). Thorax, 29, 666-672. Oesophageal motor dysfunction in patients with diverticula of the mid-thoracic oesophagus. Oesophageal motor function was assessed by a perfused catheter manometric system in a consecutive series of 12 patients with diverticula located in the mid-thoracic oesophagus. In only one of the 12 patients was there radiographic evidence of prior tuberculous infe...