title: [Prenatal and neonatal management of digestive tract duplications. Diagnostic difficulties and therapeutic implications].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To insist on the difficulty of the antenatal diagnosis of digestive duplications, to show the importance of a complete malformative screening, and the need for immediate management at birth.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cystic duplication of the tongue, a duplication, abdomino-thoracic transdiaphragmatic, and a duplication of the small bowel are described and compared with cases previously reported in th literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Antenatal evacuation puncture of a duplication of the tongue must be reserved for exceptional situations. Foregut duplications are often associated with other malformations. The duplication of the small intestine can exceptionally expose to a mechanical complication, mostly during the postnatal period, which may require emergency surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Duplications of the alimentary tract should be detectable on prenatal ultrasound examination. A complete antenatal malformative screening is required and in utero transfer is warranted because emergency surgery may be required.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Infantile, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Becmeur
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Viville
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Christmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dreyfus
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Favre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sauvage
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000002:abnormalities*; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013270:Stomach / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014059:Tongue / Q000002:abnormalities*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal