title: Congenital oesophageal atresia discordant for tracheo-oesophageal fistula occurring in a set of dizygotic twins.
abstract: The authors present a set of female diamnionic and dichorionic twins with different blood types and congenital oesophageal atresia (EA) in both. Surgical management was successful. It can be assumed that EA with tracheo-oesophageal fistula in twin B occurred during an early embryological stage whereas the isolated EA in twin A was the result of a later event. To our knowledge, this is the first published set of dizygotic twins with different types of EA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Leipzig Medical Centre, Leipzig, Germany. ralf-bodo.troebs@marienhospital-herne.de
authors.forename: R-B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Tröbs
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knüpffer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schütz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cernaianu
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Regenthal
mesh_terms: D004200:Diseases in Twins; D004933:Esophageal Atresia / Q000196:embryology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000196:embryology*; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic