title: An audit of pharyngeal pouch surgery using endoscopic stapling. The patient's viewpoint.
abstract: We report an audit designed to assess patient satisfaction resulting from pharyngeal pouch surgery using an endoscopic stapler. A personal series of 16 patients all operated on by the senior author over a 3-year period is reported. Information was gathered using a retrospective telephone questionnaire to establish pre- and postoperative symptoms, complications of surgery and patient satisfaction. This showed endoscopic pharyngeal pouch surgery to be successful in the majority of cases. Eighty-seven percent of patients felt better as a result of surgery. Seventy-five percent had no symptoms postoperatively. This series shows that surgery on pharyngeal pouches results in significant improvement in patient symptoms with minimal morbidity and mortality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester, UK. wellermj@blueyonder.co.uk
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Weller
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rowlands
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom; D016672:Zenker Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*