[Home ] [Archive]   [ فارسی ]  
:: Main :: About :: Current Issue :: Archive :: Search :: Submit :: Contact ::
Main Menu
Home::
Journal Information::
Indexing Sources::
Editorial Board::
Executive Members::
Articles Archive::
Instruction to Authors::
Peer-Review::
Contact Us::
Site Facilities::
::
Search in website

Advanced Search
Receive site information
Enter your Email in the following box to receive the site news and information.
:: 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
Abstract:   (19038 Views)

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
Full-Text [PDF 1402 kb] [English Abstract]   (16180 Downloads) |   |   Abstract (HTML)  (585 Views)  
Type of Study: Case Report | Subject: Surgery
Send email to the article author


XML   Persian Abstract   Print


Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:

Maleki I, Godazandeh Gh. Concomitant pleural tuberculosis and aspiration pneumonia due to epiphrenic diverticula: a case report. J Gorgan Univ Med Sci 2011; 13 (1) :132-137
URL: http://goums.ac.ir/journal/article-1-979-en.html


Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Volume 13, Issue 1 (3-2011) Back to browse issues page
مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گرگان Journal of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences
Persian site map - English site map - Created in 0.05 seconds with 36 queries by YEKTAWEB 4645