A 60-year-old woman with a family history of aortic dissection in her mother was investigated for dysphagia. Her scan showed right arch large Kommerell’s diverticulum causing esophageal compression. left vertebral artery, which originated abnormally low the thorax, embolized preoperatively to limit operative difficulties. Two weeks later, thoracotomy allowed resection aneurysm an associated car...

We report two rare cases of female patients presenting with oesophageal leiomyoma associated with oesophageal diverticulum, both of whom were surgically managed. Oesophageal leiomyoma and oesophageal diverticulum are uncommon as separate entities and rare as combined disease presentation. Clinicians need to be aware of the rare combination of the two entities and need to be able to exclude the ...

BACKGROUND Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) has been increasingly recognized as a site of primary epithelial malignancy. Pitt in 1896 described the first case. METHODS Between 1990 and 2005, 30 patients affected of esophageal diverticulum were referred to our Department. RESULTS The pathological results revealed one case of squamous cell carcinoma. On follow-up 10 years after diverticulectomy alo...