Laparoscopic transhiatal surgery for an epiphrenic esophageal diverticulum derived from a jackhammer esophagus: a case report

BACKGROUND: An esophageal diverticulum is rare and is frequently associated with esophageal motility disorders. Jackhammer esophagus is also rare, is characterized by esophageal hypercontraction, and comprises 4.1% of esophageal motility disorders. Here, we report a case of a patient successfully tr...

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Published in:Surg Case Rep
Main Authors: Fujinaga, Atsuro, Shibata, Tomotaka, Etoh, Tsuyoshi, Tada, Kazuhiro, Suzuki, Kosuke, Nishiki, Kohei, Ogawa, Katsuhiro, Kono, Yohei, Hiratsuka, Takahiro, Akagi, Tomonori, Ueda, Yoshitake, Toujigamori, Manabu, Shiroshita, Hidefumi, Shiraishi, Norio, Inomata, Masafumi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324458/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32601779
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-020-00900-2
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