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- Impact Factor: 1.809**
- H-Index: 6
- ISSN: 2474-1655
- DOI: 10.25107/2474-1655
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- Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
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Abstract
Citation: Ann Clin Case Rep. 2019;4(1):1609.DOI: 10.25107/2474-1655.1609
A Rare True Epiphrenic Diverticulum in a Patient with Achalasia, Misdiagnosed as a Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia
Julie Holihan, Craig Floyd and Farzaneh Banki
Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, USA
Memorial Hermann Southeast Esophageal Disease Center, Texas, USA
*Correspondance to: Farzaneh Banki
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Abstract:
Epiphrenic diverticula are pulsion/false diverticula caused by outflow resistance at the level of the gastroesophageal junction and esophageal motility disorders. We present a large epiphrenic diverticulum with clinical and pathological features of a true diverticulum in a patient with achalasia, which was misdiagnosed as a hiatal hernia.
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Holihan J, Floyd C, Banki F. A Rare True Epiphrenic Diverticulum in a Patient with Achalasia, Misdiagnosed as a Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2019; 4: 1609.