Oesophageal atresia. 3 cases in 2 generations.

We report what we believe to be the second recorded case of oesophageal atresia in parent and child. Engel et al. (1970) described a woman, one of their first successfully-treated patients, whose daughter was also affected. Both had oesophageal atresia with a tracheo-oesophageal fistula to the lower oesophageal pouch. This combination of anomalies is generally known as oesophageal atresia type III, and accounts for 85 to 900o of patients