TY - JOUR T1 - Case of membranous oesophageal atresia JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-314919 SP - fetalneonatal-2018-314919 AU - Jia-liang Zhou AU - Wu-ping Ge AU - Xiao-chun Zhu AU - Yuan-long Fang AU - Tao Song AU - Song Tian Y1 - 2018/04/11 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2018/04/11/archdischild-2018-314919.abstract N2 - A term neonate presented to us with drooling of saliva and frothing from the mouth on day 2 of life. On examination, a 6F gastric tube was passed into the oesophagus, but met with an obstruction 11 cm from the gums. X-ray showed clear lung fields in the chest, absence of gastric shadow and paucity of gas in the abdomen. An oesophageal contrast study with iohexol demonstrated an atretic oesophageal pouch (figure 1). The clinical and radiological findings led to a preoperative … ER -