The prevalence of perforated sigmoid diverticular disease in developed countries increased from 2.4/100,000 in 1986, to 3.8/100,000 in 2000. [2] Approximately 50% of all people have diverticula by the time they are 50 years of age, and nearly 70% of all people have diverticula by the time they are 80 years of age. [3] Approximately 75% of people with diverticula have asymptomatic diverticulosis...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS High intraluminal pressure has been reported to cause left colonic diverticula. However, the pathophysiology of right colonic diverticula is still unclear. Methane gas has been reported to delay small intestinal transit and to increase intraluminal pressure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between right colonic diverticula and intestinal gas produced by e...

BACKGROUND Carcinoma is a rare complication of pharyngeal diverticula. There is a paucity of information about its incidence, presentation, management, and treatment outcomes. A systematic review and analysis of all reported cases has been carried out. METHODS A comprehensive literature search for pharyngeal diverticula carcinoma was performed from 1896 to 2008. Descriptive analyses were carr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to characterize the frequency and location of left atrial diverticula by using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Cardiac imaging was performed for 454 patients using 64MDCT. Most patients were being examined for coronary artery disease. All images were interpreted by two radiologists on a three-dimensional workstation using multi...

A retrospective survey was undertaken of 228 resected Meckel's diverticula to determine if there was any evidence of Campylobacter pylori infection in diverticula containing gastric mucosa. Among the 65 diverticula with gastric mucosa one was heavily infected with organisms having the morphological appearances of C pylori. The specimen had been removed from a six year old Samoan boy who had bee...

DIVERTICULA of the alimentary tract may be congenital or acquired. The congenital variety is composed of all coats of the intestinal wall and is said to be a "true" diverticulum. The acquired variety may be either "true" or "false" depending on whether or not protrusion of the muscle coats of the intestinal wall occurs with the mucous membrane. Although the majority of acquired diverticula are ...

Paravaterian diverticula are extraluminar outpouchings of the duodenal lumen arising in a range of 2-3 cm from the ampulla of Vater. Their prevalence increases with age. Complications include pancreaticobiliary complications (primary calculosis of the biliary tract; cholangitis; acute pancreatitis) and non-pancreaticobiliary complications (bleeding; perforation; obstruction). The association be...

Partial gastric diverticula are rare and clinically insignificant, but because experience is limited, they are liable to cause diagnostic confusion. This report describes the radiological and endoscopic appearances of partial gastric diverticula.

D iverticular disease includes a spectrum of conditions sharing the underlying pathology of acquired diverticula of the colon. Because diverticular disease occurs almost exclusively in developed countries, it has been dubbed a “disease of Western Civilization.”1 acquired diverticula form through the relative weakness in the muscle wall of the colon at the site where arteries (the vasa recta) pe...