[Neonatal gastric perforation (author's transl)]

Three cases of neonatal gastric perforation of unknown etiology are presented. All three patients are female, one of them a second twin and two of them less than 2,000 g. in weight. All the patients were born under anoxic deliveries and needed resuscitative treatment. Digestive and respiratory symptoms started in all between the 2nd and the 4th days of life. Diagnosis, clinically suspected, is established radiologically. Perforations were surgically closed in all three patients. Two remain alive.