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A duodenal diverticulum can be found incidentally in 23% of normal people undergoing imaging. It can be either congenital or acquired, but the acquired form is more common and is due to the weakness of the duodenal wall, which causes protrusions. It is usually found at the
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Urethral diverticula are usually found in women aged 30 to 70 years old, in between 1 and 6% of adult women. Since most cases are without any symptoms, the true incidence is unknown. Symptoms may vary from frequent urinary tract infections, painful sexual intercourse
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Histopathology of the gallbladder, showing a false diverticulum (larger than a Rokitansky–Aschoff sinus). It is not true, as the muscularis layer is essentially absent over the diverticulum rather than bulging
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is an outpouching (aneurysm) of the aorta where an aberrant right subclavian artery is located. It is unusual nomenclature, in that focal dilatations of a blood vessel are properly referred to as aneurysms.
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is an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, diverticula are described as being either true or false.
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False diverticula (also known as "pseudodiverticula") do not involve muscular layers or adventitia. False diverticula, in the gastrointestinal tract for instance, involve only the
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in older males. Usually found in pairs on opposite sides of the bladder, bladder diverticula are often surgically removed to prevent infection, rupture, or even cancer.
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is very similar to a pharyngeal esophageal diverticulum, differing in the fact that the pouching is between the oblique and transverse fibers of the
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Elsayes, Khaled M.; Menias, Christine O.; Harvin, Howard J.; Francis, Isaac R. (July 2007). "Imaging manifestations of Meckel's diverticulum".
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Large bowel (sigmoid colon) showing multiple diverticula: the diverticula appear on either side of the longitudinal muscle bundle (taenium).
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A jejunal diverticulum is a congenital lesion and may be a source of bacterial overgrowth. It may also perforate or result in abscesses.
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Calyceal diverticula are usually asymptomatic, but if a stone becomes lodged in the outpouching, they may present with pain.
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Bladder diverticula are balloon-like growths on the bladder commonly associated with chronic outflow obstruction, such as
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is highly sensitive in diagnosing the diverticulum, but it is strongly dependent on the skills of the operator.
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Schematic drawing of a false diverticulum. A - mucosa; B - submucosa; C - muscularis; D - serosa and subserosa
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Shah, Jamil; Patel, Kalpesh; Sunkara, Tagore; Papafragkakis, Charilaos; Shahidullah, Abul (April 2019).
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The 3 classifications of esophageal diverticula. 1-Pharyngeal (Zenker's) 2-Midesophageal 3-Epiphrenic
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Medical or biological term for an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body
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Barat, M.; Dohan, A.; Dautry, R.; Barral, M.; Boudiaf, M.; Hoeffel, C.; Soyer, P. (October 2017).
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Cardiac diverticulum is a very rare congenital malformation of the heart that is usually benign.
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Epiphrenic diverticula are due to dysfunction of the lower esophageal sphincter, as in
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gland develops as a diverticulum arising from a point on the tongue, demarcated as the
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Bladder diverticula containing stones: the bladder wall is thickened due to possible
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Diverticula are described as being true or false depending upon the layers involved:
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In medicine, the term usually implies the structure is not normally present, but in
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appears in the form of two flask-shape diverticula, which arise from the third
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This article is about the medical term. For the structures in sea slugs, see
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Most of these pathological types of diverticula are capable of harboring an
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Diverticulum of the urinary bladder of a 59-year-old man, transverse plane
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Esophageal diverticula may occur in one of three areas of the esophagus:
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is an outpouching that occurs in the Laimer triangle between the
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True diverticula involve all layers of the structure, including
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are originally diverticula forming off of the ventral foregut.
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Bladder diverticula as seen on ultrasound with doppler
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Index

Diverticulectomy
Diverticulum (mollusc anatomy)

Specialty
Gastroenterology
biology
embryology
thyroid diverticulum
tongue
submucosa
mucosa
Zenker's diverticulum
pulsion diverticula
muscularis propria
adventitia
Meckel's diverticulum
kidneys
development of the urinary and reproductive organs
lungs
thymus
branchial pouch
endoderm
thyroid
foramen cecum

Zenker's
Killian's triangle
thyropharyngeus
cricopharyngeus muscle
inferior pharyngeal constrictors

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