Rebecca Howell, Christopher Johnson, Jacqui Allen, Mekibib Altaye, Milan Amin, Semirra Bayan, Peter Belafsky, Brian Cervenka, Brad Desilva, Gregory R Dion, Dale Ekbom, Aaron Friedman, Mark Fritz, John Paul Giliberto, Elizabeth Guardiani, Jan Kasperbauer, Brandon Kim, Brittany N Krekeler, Maggie Kuhn, Paul Kwak, Yue Ma, Lyndsay L Madden, Laura Matrka, Ross Mayerhoff, Mallory McKeon, Cyrus Piraka, Clark A Rosen, Meredith Tabangin, Shaun A Wahab, Keith Wilson, Carter Wright, VyVy N Young, Gregory Postma
OBJECTIVE: To compare improvement in patient-reported outcomes (PROM) in persons undergoing endoscopic and open surgical management of Zenker diverticula (ZD). METHODOLOGY: Prospective, multicenter cohort study of all individuals enrolled in the Prospective OUtcomes of Cricopharyngeus Hypertonicity (POUCH) Collaborative who underwent surgery for ZD. Patient survey, radiography reports, and the 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) pre- and post-procedure were abstracted from a REDCap database, which summarized means, medians, percentages, and frequencies of...
May 16, 2023: Laryngoscope