DIVERTICULA of the alimentary tract may be congenital or acquired. The congenital variety is composed of all coats of the intestinal wall and is said to be a "true" diverticulum. The acquired variety may be either "true" or "false" depending on whether or not protrusion of the muscle coats of the intestinal wall occurs with the mucous membrane. Although the majority of acquired diverticula are ...

Paravaterian diverticula are extraluminar outpouchings of the duodenal lumen arising in a range of 2-3 cm from the ampulla of Vater. Their prevalence increases with age. Complications include pancreaticobiliary complications (primary calculosis of the biliary tract; cholangitis; acute pancreatitis) and non-pancreaticobiliary complications (bleeding; perforation; obstruction). The association be...

Partial gastric diverticula are rare and clinically insignificant, but because experience is limited, they are liable to cause diagnostic confusion. This report describes the radiological and endoscopic appearances of partial gastric diverticula.

This study explores the contribution of Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) to the assessment and management of patients presenting on videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) with a suspected pharyngo-oesophageal diverticulum. Records for all patients who attended for VFSS in an acute hospital over an eleven-year period were examined (N = 1820). Twenty patients were identified on VFSS as hav...

D iverticular disease includes a spectrum of conditions sharing the underlying pathology of acquired diverticula of the colon. Because diverticular disease occurs almost exclusively in developed countries, it has been dubbed a “disease of Western Civilization.”1 acquired diverticula form through the relative weakness in the muscle wall of the colon at the site where arteries (the vasa recta) pe...

Two children with congenital apical left ventricular diverticulum and significant mitral incompetence are reported. The angiographic and anatomic findings of the few previously reported patients with congenital diverticula and aneurysm were analyzed and a new classification differentiating between the two is proposed. The clinical data analyzed in apical diverticula and aneurysm are similar to ...

OBJECTIVE Tracheal diverticulum (DV) is an incidental finding in thoracic computed tomography examinations. Tracheal DV may be associated with chronic cough and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A few studies have investigated the relationship between tracheal DV and COPD. There is still no consensus on the relationship. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of tr...

Crohn's disease may affect segments of the colon (Brooke, 1959; Lindner, Marshak, Wolf, and Janowitz, 1963; Lockhart-Mummery and Morson, 1960, 1964) where diverticula are a common finding in the middle-aged and elderly (Dearlove, 1954; Pemberton, Black, and Maino, 1947). It would thus be surprising if Crohn's disease did not sometimes occur in the region of colonic diverticula and the object of...

The prevalence of perforated sigmoid diverticular disease in developed countries increased from 2.4/100,000 in 1986, to 3.8/100,000 in 2000. [2] Approximately 50% of all people have diverticula by the time they are 50 years of age, and nearly 70% of all people have diverticula by the time they are 80 years of age. [3] Approximately 75% of people with diverticula have asymptomatic diverticulosis...