Abstract
Authors report on the X-ray images and radioscopy of 2 patients with difficulty of swallowing ; a 29-year-old man with associated paralysis of larynx and a 69-year old woman with right side paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and right side goiter. The authors observed a good deal of barium-pasta stopped in the right side piriform recess of the former case. After four months, the patient became asymptomatic and the pasta could not be found in the right side piriform recess. By X-ray photography of the second case, the cervical esophagus seemed to be pressed to the right side to form the diverticulum, but by the X-ray illumination it was not diverticulum.
The authors emphasize the importance of joint use of X-ray illumination and photography.
