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Ann Thorac Surg 1974;17:260-267
© 1974 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Esophageal Intramural Diverticulosis

John W. Hammon, Jr., M.D., Reed P. Rice, M.D., Raymond W. Postlethwait, M.D., W. Glenn Young, Jr., M.D.*

From the Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, and the Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Young, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. 27710

This paper presents 3 patients with esophageal intramural diverticulosis and discusses the roentgenographic, manometric, histological, and microbiological picture attendant to this disease. Evidence is given to support chronic infection of esophageal submucosal glands as the predominant cause.




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