ABSTRACT
According to Evans,1 Binninger was the first to describe
colonic atresia in 1673. The first survivor was reported in
1922, when Gaub2 opened a diverting colostomy in a child
with an atresia of the sigmoid colon. Potts3 successfully
performed a primary anastomosis in a neonate with an
atresia of the transverse colon in 1947.
