[Congenital pharyngo-oesophageal diverticulum in the newborn. Case report (author's transl)]

The Authors describe a case of congenital diverticulum of hypopharynx in a newborn. The lesion, early recognised, is successfull treated with surgical removal by a transcervical approach. The revision of the literature confirms the extreme rarity of this affection in the newborn and the correlated mortality if not early diagnosed and then confused with an atresia of the oesophagus it often simulates whose symptomatology.