Valentini M, Pera M, Vidal O, Lacima G, Belda J, de Lacy A M
Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Digestive Motility Unit, Institut de Malalties Digestives, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona Medical School, Barcelona, Spain.
Dis Esophagus. 2005;18(1):64-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2005.00450.x.
The established management of epiphrenic diverticula combines diverticulectomy with myotomy of the distal esophagus including the lower esophageal sphincter. We report a patient with prompt recurrence of an epiphrenic diverticulum after laparoscopic transhiatal diverticulectomy associated with esophagomyotomy and partial posterior fundoplication due to an incomplete myotomy.