Severe dysphagia due to a huge epiphrenic diverticulum: long-term treatment with balloon dilation and botulinum toxin injection: a case report

We herein describe the first case of a high elderly patient with severe dysphagia in solids and liquids, caused by a huge epiphrenic diverticulum, who was treated with combined therapy of balloon dilation and botulinum toxin injection. Due to comorbid associated diseases the patient was unsuitable t...

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Autores principales: Katsinelos, Panagiotis, Chatzimavroudis, Grigoris, Fasoulas, Kostas, Pilpilidis, Ioannis, Lazaraki, Georgia, Katsinelos, Taxiarchis, Tzilves, Dimitris, Germanidis, George, Vasiliadis, Themistoklis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829958
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7418

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829958
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7418

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