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A Killian–Jamieson diverticulum is an outpouching of the esophagus just below the upper esophageal sphincter. [1] The physicians that first discovered the diverticulum were Gustav Killian and James Jamieson. Diverticula are seldom larger than 1.5 cm, and are less frequent than the similar Zenker's diverticula.
A Zenker's diverticulum, also pharyngeal pouch, is a diverticulum of the mucosa of the human pharynx, just above the cricopharyngeal muscle (i.e. above the upper sphincter of the esophagus). It is a pseudo diverticulum or false diverticulum (only involving the mucosa and submucosa of the esophageal wall, not the adventitia), also known as a ...
Killian's dehiscence (also known as Killian's triangle) ... It represents a potentially weak spot where a pharyngoesophageal diverticulum (Zenker's diverticulum) ...
Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Zenker's diverticulum. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC
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Zenker's fixative is a rapid-acting fixative for animal tissues. It is employed to prepare specimens of animal or vegetable tissues for microscopic study. It provides excellent fixation of nuclear chromatin , connective tissue fibers and some cytoplasmic features, but does not preserve delicate cytoplasmic organelles such as mitochondria .
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Zenker is the name of: Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898) was a German pathologist, who named: Zenker's degeneration; Zenker's diverticulum; Zenker's fixative; Zenker's paralysis; Georg August Zenker (1855–1922), German gardener and naturalist; Hans Zenker (1870–1932), German admiral; Jonathan Carl Zenker (1799–1837), German naturalist