Case reportComplete duplication of bladder and urethra in coronal plane with no other anomalies: Case report with review of the literature
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Case report
A 7-year-old boy presented with lower abdominal pain and fever of 2 days duration. The patient reported no prior history of urinary tract infection. On physical examination, he had epispadias. The urinalysis and urine culture were normal. The ultrasound examination revealed a hypoechoic mass between the symphysis pubis and the bladder. To delineate the nature of this mass further, magnetic resonance imaging was performed, which demonstrated a 1-cm cystic mass with wall thickening between the
Comment
Complete duplication of the bladder and urethra differs from a bilocular bladder, in which the bladder is divided by a septum. Complete duplication has an interbladder septum with a muscular compartment or the absence of a communication between the two bladders.3 In cases of incomplete duplication, the two bladders communicate and drain into a common urethra.4 Duplication of the bladder may be complete or incomplete and may occur in the sagittal or coronal plane, depending on the axis of the
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2008, Journal of Pediatric UrologyCitation Excerpt :While each case is unique, some trends have been previously reported. Specifically, non-urologic anomalies have been thought as more commonly seen in cases of complete duplication with a sagittal septum, while urogenital anomalies have been thought to be more common in cases with a coronal septum [2,4,5,13,21]. This was difficult to either verify or dispute, because of the broad categories of urogenital versus non-urogenital anomalies.
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2006, UrologyCitation Excerpt :In cases with a sagittal septum, nonurologic anomalies are more common.4,5,9 In contrast, in cases with a coronal septum, urogenital anomalies are more frequent.4,10 In the present case, the initial diagnosis was a cystic mass that was coincidentally found during the investigation for urinary tract infection.