Successful treatment of a Zenker diveiculum involves?: (A) Diveiculopexy, (B) Resection of the diveiculum, (C) Either diveiculopexy or resection with cricopharyngeal myotomy, (D) Observation
Answer is C. Treatment of Choice -Cricopharyngeal Myotomy + Diveiculoplexy (most common among elderly, diabetics for which Diveiculoplexy is a safer procedure) Other alternative procedures: - -Diveiculectomy (for larger diveicula's > 4cm) - Diveiculo-esophagostomy (aka Dohlman procedure) -performed endoscopically.