[Cloacal exstrophy: what therapeutic approach for what result?]. / L'exstrophie du cloaque: quelle attitude thérapeutique pour quel résultat?

The authors report 11 cases of cloacal exstrophy and analyse the anatomical features and the results of surgery. The outcome of three patients aged 20, 18 and 9 years is related. Advances in prenatal assessment of malformations is likely an explanation for the lack of new cases in the recent years. However the surgical procedure now available provides a better quality of life to patients with such a disabling malformation.