Porro describes a case of congenital
obliteration of the esophagus which ended in a cecal pouch about
one inch below the inferior portion of the glottidean aperture
and from this point to the stomach only measured an inch; there
was also tracheal communication. The child was noticed to take to
the breast with avidity, but after a little suckling it would
cough, become livid, and reject most of the milk through the
nose, in this way almost suffocating at each paroxysm; it died on
the third day.
In some cases the esophagus is divided, one portion opening into
the bronchial or other thoracic organs. Brentano describes an
infant dying ten days after birth whose esophagus was divided
into two portions, one terminating in a culdesac, the other
opening into the bronchi; the left kidney was also displaced
downward. Blasius describes an anomalous case of duplication of
the esophagus. Grashuys, and subsequently Vicq d'Azir, saw a
dilatation of the esophagus resembling the crop of a bird.
Anomalies of the Lungs.--Carper describes a fetus of thirty-seven
weeks in whose thorax he found a very voluminous thymus gland but
no lungs. These organs were simply represented by two little oval
bodies having no lobes, with the color of the tissue of the
liver.
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