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TRACTION MID‐ESOPHAGEAL DIVERTICULUM ASSOCIATED WITH POTT'S SPINAL CARIES
Author(s) -
Ikeda Yoshifumi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.00950.x
Subject(s) - medicine , traction (geology) , diverticulum (mollusc) , anatomy , geology , geomorphology
A 71‐year‐old man was admitted to Teikyo University Hospital with paraplegia, subileus, back pain and high fever. He gave a history of having received treatment for spinal caries 20 years previously. Chest computed tomography and esophageal endoscopy demonstrated evidence of spinal caries and traction mid‐esophageal diverticulum associated with kyphosis of the spine. The present report describes the extremely rare case of diverticula associated with kyphosis of the spine caused by spinal caries (Pott's spinal caries).