Related Experiment Videos
Diagnosis of epiphrenic esophageal diverticulum by computed tomography
K W Kim1, Y M Berkmen, Y H Auh
1Department of Radiology, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York 10021.
The Journal of Computed Tomography
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Epiphrenic diverticulum is typically demonstrated by computed tomography examination as a thin walled, air or air-fluid filled structure communicating with the esophagus. However, those not associated with a distal esophageal obstruction (stricture, achalasia) may remain contracted in resting state and thus may not be visible. Occasionally the diverticulum may have to be differentiated from mediastinal abscess or tumors and even hiatus hernia.