Endoscopy revealed no mass and a distal esophageal diverticulum with a 2- to 3-cm neck approximately 3 cm above the gastroesophageal junction. Proximal to the diverticulum, the esophagus was modestly ...

An article in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology examines the distribution of colonic diverticula. 1. The research team examined patients undergoing screening colonoscopy at the University of ...

Abdominal pain and changes in digestive habits are symptoms associated with a range of gastrointestinal issues. One potential condition is diverticulosis, which we become more at risk of as we age. In ...

The common but often misunderstood gut condition you’ve probably never heard of - About 70 per cent of people will have developed diverticular disease by the time they reach 80 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, our ...

THE treatment of esophagopharyngeal diverticulum continues to be an interesting surgical problem. For the majority of practitioners interest in the subject arises out of the comparative rarity of the ...

Last week a patient came to see me looking very unwell. Having just come out of hospital after her first attack of diverticulitis, she was understandably anxious to learn how to ward off further ...

Diverticulum (plural diverticula) is the outward bulge of the inner epithelial lining of the bladder through a defect in its muscular layer. It can be present since birth or acquired later in life due ...

Diverticular disease is a condition which occurs when pouches of tissue, commonly known as diverticula, pass through the muscular layer of the bowel. Classically, the lowest most portion of the large ...