[Apple peel small bowel. Report of two cases of a peculiar type of small bowel atresia (author's transl)].

The authors report two personal cases of a peculiar type of small bowel atresia called "Apple peel small bowel", they give proheminence on the unusualiness of the lesion, the non specific clinical picture, and the relatively bad prognosis. The physiopathologic hypothesis which were proposed for this disease are reviewed.