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Tracheal agenesis: an exceptional cause of neonatal respiratory distress
B Brichard1, E Smeets, L Withofs
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Liège, Rocourt, Belgium.
Pediatric Pulmonology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The absence of the trachea is a rare and always lethal congenital malformation. Temporary survival depends on ventilation through the esophagus. We report our experience with a newborn who presented this unusual tracheal abnormality in association with cardiac malformation.