A 49-year-old woman from Trichur, Kerala, reported on March 7, 1961, and complained of severe dysphagia of a week's duration. This started after she had eaten a meal which included mutton curry. The dysphagia was less severe two days later after she had regurgitated some food containing pieces of mutton. She could swallow liquids at the time of admission to hospital. She was known to have been ...

Articles embracing the incidence, etiology, differential diagnosis, symptoms and complications of epiphrenic diverticulum of the esophagus have appeared not too infrequently in the past.5~9J1J7~ 1 8 , 2 1 ~ 2 7 ~ 2 8 9 3 0 ~ 3 1 However, except for the notable contributions of Janes,13 Adams,' and Harrington,l0 the surgical aspects of this disease have received scant attention. No article has a...

Non-malignant oesophageal diseases are critical to recognize, but can be easily overlooked or misdiagnosed radiologically. In this paper, we cover the salient clinical features and imaging findings of non-malignant pathology of the oesophagus. We organize the many non-malignant diseases of the oesophagus into two major categories: luminal disorders and wall disorders. Luminal disorders include ...

Purpose: Clinical presentation and surgical results of the esophageal diverticula were analyzed. Methods: Ten patients who underwent esophageal diverticulectomy with myotomy from May 1999 to May 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. Results: Three pharyngoesophageal, one midesophageal and six epiphrenic diverticula were observed and transcervical, right transthoracic and left transthoracic surgic...

Esophageal diverticula (ED) constitute a rare pathology, with a prevalence ranging between 0.06% and 4% (1,2). According to its anatomical location it is classified as pharyngo-esophageal, middle esophageal and epiphrenics ED (3). The pathophysiologic mechanism differs in diverticula caused by traction, due to an inflammatory process involving the esophagus, or pulsion, associated with a concom...