Abstract
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 the condition and the fact that the diverticulum may masquerade under the guise of chronic laryngeal disease or vague dysphagia for many years. The problems associated with the surgical treatment of esophagopharyngeal diverticulum are due to the fact that the esophagus withstands surgery poorly and that the location of the diverticulum allows any postoperative infection direct access to the mediastinum. These two factors have resulted in a careful and slow surgical evolution . . .
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