Endoscopic Treatment of Zenker’s Diverticulum: Comparable Treatment Outcomes in Treatment-Naïve and Pretreated Patients

Table 1

Content of the questionnaire.

	0	1	2	3	4
Recorded symptoms
Frequency of dysphagia	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Dysphagia score	No dysph.	Solid food	Soft food	Fluids	Aphagia
Odynophagia	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Regurgitation	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Halitosis	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Vomiting	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Nocturnal awakening	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Chronic cough	Never	<1/mth	<1/wk	>1/wk	Permanent
Additional information
General condition	Very good	Good	Satisfactory	Bad	Very bad
Duration of symptoms	Open answer
Most compromising sympt.	Open answer
Weight loss	Open answer

Aphagia means the inability to swallow saliva. dysph.: dysphagia; sympt.: symptoms; wk: week; mth: month.