Surgery for Pharyngeal Pouch/Zenker's Diverticulum
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2025-04-20
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Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Operative Surgery
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University of Cape Town
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This chapter provides an overview of man agement of Zenker’s divertula (ZD), including detailed surgical technique, with an emphasis on effective therapy and management. Zenker, a German pathologist, first reported 27 hypopharyngeal pulsion diverticulain 1878. In 1907, Killian, described the triangular dehiscence between the cricopharyngeus and inferior constrictor muscles that is the anatomic site of formation of Zenker’s Diverticula.
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Schuster, D., Netterville, J. & Fagan, J. 2025. Surgery for Pharyngeal Pouch/Zenker's Diverticulum. In Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Operative Surgery. J. Fagan, Ed.Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town. 14. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/43481 .