[Abdomino-thoracic digestive duplications. General review apropos of 2 cases]

The authors present two personal observations of thoraco-abdominal duplications of the foregut and analyze 48 others cases collected in the literature since the first one related by Budde in 1912. Anatomic study, evolutivity of the malformation, fully expression of notochordodysraphia, allow an analysis of symptoms, which must actually lead to an acute diagnosis. Total excision in a single stage through a double thoracic and, after, abdominal approach is the logic treatment.