Flexible endoscopic cricopharyngeal myotomy - The gold standard for the management of Zenker's diverticulum.
The prevalence of Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) is difficult to estimate. If we focus on some published data, it may be as low as 2 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year in the United Kingdom, which is in contrast the with feeling in some endoscopy units, that this condition's prevalence is increasing year after year. Prevalence likely remains the same as ever, but the addition of factors such as population ageing, optimal diagnostic care, availability of effective endoscopic management, increased awareness, and cumulative experience in some endoscopy teams, may well have increasingly brought this condition to our attention in our daily practice. This is reflected by an unbelievable 18 ZDs over the last 18 months, as discussed in the manuscript by Dr. de la Morena, reported in this issue of The Spanish Journal of Digestive Diseases (Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas.
Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Quirñon Madrid, España.
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Juzgado Lucas