A 65-year-old female patient presented for an evaluation of duodenal stenosis. She had a decades-long history of nausea and vomiting. Endoscopy revealed the cause to be short-segment duodenal ...

A 65-year-old female patient presented for an evaluation of duodenal stenosis. She had a decades-long history of nausea and vomiting. Endoscopy revealed the cause to be short-segment duodenal ...

Intraluminal duodenal diverticulum is a recognised but rare cause of acute pancreatitis. This patient had three attacks of pancreatitis, each requiring a stay in hospital, within a four month period.

Two days following the elective procedure, bilious fluid was noted in her pelvic drain. The patient returned to theatre, where a perforated duodenal diverticulum was excised and the defect primarily ...

Duodenal diverticulum perforation is a rare and life-threatening pathology. Perforation secondary to iatrogenic causes is rare, with only 14 cases previously reported. This paper explores a ...

THE treatment of esophagopharyngeal diverticulum continues to be an interesting surgical problem. For the majority of practitioners interest in the subject arises out of the comparative rarity of ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), a form of metabolic surgery, establishes duodenal exclusion by diverting intestinal contents away from the upper GI tract. This intervention—commonly referred to ...

A bladder diverticulum is a pouch in the bladder wall that a person may either be born with ("congenital") or get later ("acquired"). A congenital bladder diverticulum forms when some of the bladder ...

Background: Duodenal cancer is one of the leading causes of death in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) patients. An endoscopic surveillance programme was therefore initiated in 1988, the outcome of ...

The duodenal switch is a minimally invasive procedure or open surgical procedure that combines a sleeve gastrectomy (restriction) with a bypass of the intestines (malabsorption). This procedure is ...

Duodenal switch surgery is safe and effective for patients who have at least 80 to 100 pounds of excess weight. At OHSU, you’ll find: Surgeons with advanced training in bariatric procedures and follow ...

Patients undergoing open transcervical or endoscopic approach in which a laser or stapler is used to divide the common wall between the diverticulum and esophagus, or who are not surgical candidates ...