title: Thoracoscopic resection of a combined esophageal leiomyoma and diverticulum: a case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 66-year-old male patient with a combined esophageal leiomyoma and diverticulum. On account of the low incidence, there is little literature available with regard to the management of those conditions. Our patient underwent a simultaneous thoracoscopic enucleation of the leiomyoma and resection of the diverticulum. Though endoscopic enucleations of myoma and resections of diverticula have been described earlier, to our knowledge, we are the first, who performed those procedures in a single operation, which seems to be feasible and safe.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany. gerold.koplin@charite.de
authors.forename: Gerold
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koplin
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Swierzy
authors.forename: Charalambos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menenakos
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schwenk
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hartmann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018229:Angiomyoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004936:Diverticulum, Esophageal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*