Concomitant pleural tuberculosis and aspiration pneumonia due to epiphrenic diverticula: a case report

• Main Authors: Maleki I, Godazandeh Gh
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Golestan University of Medical Sciences 2011-05-01
• Series: مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گرگان
• Subjects: Aspiration Pneumonia; Esophageal diverticula; Epiphrenic diverticula; Tuberculosis
• Online Access: http://goums.ac.ir/journal/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-503&slc_lang=en&sid=1

Aspiration pneumonia is a critical disease and can result from a various causes. Epiphrenic diverticula is a rare disorder, which can cause aspiration of food material contained in it. Mediastinal tuberculosis can also cause traction diverticula at mid-esophagus, which usually are asymptomatic and induce no complication. In this article we describe a case, suffering of all these three disorders and after seven years of surgery and medical treatment any symptom was not found in the patient.