:: Volume 13, Issue 1 (3-2011) ::
J Gorgan Univ Med Sci 2011, 13(1): 132-137 Back to browse issues page
Concomitant pleural tuberculosis and aspiration pneumonia due to epiphrenic diverticula: a case report
Maleki I1 , Godazandeh Gh *2
1- Assistant Professor, Gastroenterologist, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Thoracic Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran , ghgous@yahoo.com
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Aspiration pneumonia is a critical disease and can result from a various causes. Epiphrenic diverticula is a rare disorder, which can cause aspiration of food material contained in it. Mediastinal tuberculosis can also cause traction diverticula at mid-esophagus, which usually are asymptomatic and induce no complication. In this article we describe a case, suffering of all these three disorders and after seven years of surgery and medical treatment any symptom was not found in the patient.

Keywords: Aspiration Pneumonia, Esophageal diverticula, Epiphrenic diverticula, Tuberculosis
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