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Foreign body in a Zenker's diverticulum (looking for the lost dentures)

Zenker's diverticulum (ZD), an acquired false pharyngoesophageal diverticulum, is a rare pathology. The prevalence of ZD among the general population is believed to be between 0.01% and 0.11%. Most patients are elderly men with symptoms of dysphagia. The most common treatments are open surgical...

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Autores principales: Naprawa, Grzegorz, Białkowska, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276258
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pg.2014.45109
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description Zenker's diverticulum (ZD), an acquired false pharyngoesophageal diverticulum, is a rare pathology. The prevalence of ZD among the general population is believed to be between 0.01% and 0.11%. Most patients are elderly men with symptoms of dysphagia. The most common treatments are open surgical diverticulectomy with or without cricopharyngeal myotomy and endoscopic myotomy. The authors report the case of a dental prosthesis lodged within an asymptomatic ZD in a 73-year-old man. It was safely removed endoscopically. So far, there have only been single reports of entrapment of an enteroscopy capsule lodged in a ZD in medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-41780532014-09-30 Foreign body in a Zenker's diverticulum (looking for the lost dentures) Naprawa, Grzegorz Białkowska, Joanna Prz Gastroenterol Case Report Zenker's diverticulum (ZD), an acquired false pharyngoesophageal diverticulum, is a rare pathology. The prevalence of ZD among the general population is believed to be between 0.01% and 0.11%. Most patients are elderly men with symptoms of dysphagia. The most common treatments are open surgical diverticulectomy with or without cricopharyngeal myotomy and endoscopic myotomy. The authors report the case of a dental prosthesis lodged within an asymptomatic ZD in a 73-year-old man. It was safely removed endoscopically. So far, there have only been single reports of entrapment of an enteroscopy capsule lodged in a ZD in medical literature. Termedia Publishing House 2014-09-16 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4178053/ /pubmed/25276258 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pg.2014.45109 Text en Copyright © 2014 Termedia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178053/
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