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Case reports

Tracheal diverticulum: a rare cause of dysphagia

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara Guven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
^b Department of General Surgery, Ankara Guven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
^c Department of Anesthesiology, Ankara Guven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Received 2 April 2008; received in revised form 29 May 2008; accepted 9 June 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara Guven Hospital, Simsek Sokak No. 29, Kavaklidere, Ankara, Turkey. Tel.: +90 312 4572192; fax: +90 312 4660752. (Email: serdarhan1{at}yahoo.com).

Tracheal diverticulum is a rarely encountered entity which is frequently an incidental finding in the postmortem examination, reported in 1% of patients in an autopsy series. Most cases are asymptomatic, but when symptoms are present they usually have airway symptoms with cough or recurrent respiratory infection. We herein report a case of a tracheal diverticulum, which had cervical dysphagia and sensation of friction.

Key Words: Trachea • Diverticulum