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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:783-784
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 778.

Doctor Tsai and her coauthors have presented a 20-year experience with a relatively small series of infants and children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF). They have reported on 81 patients of whom 68 underwent definitive treatment of their anomaly. Their overall survival rates are excellent, with favorable cases (Waterston risk groups A and B) achieving a survival between 89% and 100%. Although the Waterston classification has been traditionally used to categorize infants with EA/TEF, the criteria are really out of date in the 1990s; the new classification reported by Spitz and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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