Abstract
Objective: Analyzing the time of the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia diagnostic interferes in the eligibility for technique and consequently leads to more severe cases they wouldn't survive. Methods: It performed an integrative literature review, with qualitative approach, whose consulted data bases were SciELO and PubMed, with the descriptors: "Congenital Diaphragmatic hernia”, “surgical treatment”, “surgical procedure” and “operative”, between 2012 and 2018. Results: There were identified 687 articles and 12 articles were eligible for analysis. They observed that five articles relating to the gestation age diagnostic with mortality and morbidity. With the data found, until now, there's a mismatch between the results of FETO and that the age of diagnosis is an isolated predictive prognosis factor. Conclusion and discussion: The early diagnosis of HDC remains a challenge, since more severe cases are detected precociously and that not every service is able to offering the proper treatment for this pathology, whether it's from lack of structure, material or absence of centers that perform FETO. It's expected that this study can contribute to the field of pediatric surgery, opening way to new research.