Correction to: Nature Reviews Disease Primers https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-019-0077-0, published online 18 April 2019.

In the version of the article initially published, in the Introduction and Epidemiology sections, the prevalence of oesophageal atresia shown as “2.4 per 100,000 births” should have read “2.4 per 10,000 births”. This has now been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.