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

Table 4

Descriptive characteristics before treatment stratified by no recurrence/recurrence.

	Nonrecurrence	Recurrence	value
Total number of patients	83	17
Median follow-up (months)	44 (7-74)	39 (7-69)
Median age	71 (42-92)	73 (49-85)	0.90
Sex (female/male)	32/51	4/13	0.24
Median diverticular size (mm)	20 (10-45)	27.5 (20-40)	0.26
Median body mass index (kg/m^2)	25.8 (17.3-38.0)	27.1 (17.5-34.5)	0.70
Mean weight loss (kg)	2.1 (0-20)	2.3 (0-20)	0.83

Values express absolute numbers with (range).