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Diagnostic approach and treatment of Zenker's diverticulum [PDF]

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Pharyngoesophageal diverticulum have many subtypes, Zenker's diverticulum being the most common of them. Accounting from 70 to 75% of all esophageal diverticula. The 50% of these occur between the seventh and eighth decade of life.
Lugo, Leonel Lozano   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Stretching in Tracheal Diverticulum: First Documented Mechanism of Hoarseness and Systematic Review of Literatures

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Tracheal diverticulum is a rare paratracheal air cyst. It is often asymptomatic. Large symptomatic cases may compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and cause hoarseness. It is a rare presentation, in < 0.2 cases per year in the world.
Zahra Sadin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverticulopexia no tratamento do divertículo de Zenker

open access: yesRevista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
O divertículo de Zenker é um pseudodivertículo que se origina de um defeito muscular na parede posterior da faringe, na área de transição entre o músculo constritor inferior da faringe e o músculo cricofaringeo. Apesar do avanço das técnicas endoscópicas,
Renato Micelli Lupinacci   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Congenital Diseases of Esophagus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Esophageal atresia (EA) presents some of the greatest technical hurdles that pediatric has to face. Postnatally, the classical clinical presentation of an infant with EA is an abnormally mucousy infant who is drooling excessive amount of saliva ...
Ahmadi, Bahareh, Hosseinpour, Mehrdad
core   +2 more sources

Zenker's diverticulum: a case report and literature review

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2014
The pharyngeal pouch (Zenker's diverticulum) is a diverticulum of the mucosa of the pharynx, just above the cricopharyngeal muscle (i.e. above the upper sphincter of the oesophagus).
Moawia Elbalal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eighty-year-old man with 10 years dysphagia

open access: yesJournal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2015
Dysphagia is a sensation of food being "stuck" up in its passage from the mouth to stomach. It is of two main types, oropharyngeal dysphagia, and esophageal dysphagia.
Showkat A. Kadla   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Look Before You Cut: How a Killian–Jamieson Diverticulum Can Lead to Unnecessary Thyroidectomy

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The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume 42, Issue 4, April 2026.
Yi‐Wei Sun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound to Find Patent Foramen Ovale Before Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement

open access: yesClinical Neuroimaging, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and purpose Detection of patent foramen ovale (PFO) has become important with the increasing use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) for advanced heart failure. After LVAD implantation there may be increased right to left shunting through a PFO causing hypoxemia.
Ryan Tudino   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosis and Management of Plummer–Vinson Syndrome in a Female Ghanaian

open access: yesCase Reports in Hematology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Plummer–Vinson syndrome (PVS), also known as Paterson–Brown Kelly syndrome, is a clinical condition that is characterized by the triad of iron deficiency anemia, dysphagia and oesophageal web. This condition is rare and is diagnosed more in middle aged to older white women. However, in some studies, younger individuals have also been found to have this
Dela Fiawoo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Open Cervical Approach for Zenker’s Diverticulum: A Retrospective Case Series

open access: yesCase Reports in Surgery, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Zenker’s diverticulum (ZD) is an acquired outpouching of the mucosa and the submucosa through a point of weakness between the inferior pharyngeal constrictor and the cricopharyngeus muscles. It commonly presents with dysphagia, regurgitation, and halitosis.
Beatriz Remezal Serrano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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