Wright V M
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London.
Br J Hosp Med. 1989 Dec;42(6):452-4, 456, 459-60.
Fifty years ago this congenital anomaly was incompatible with survival. Advances in neonatal intensive care, anaesthesia and surgical techniques permit successful correction in the vast majority of patients. Death in a patient with oesophageal atresia is now rarely attributable to that anomaly, but occurs in the very premature and those babies with other associated major anomalies.
