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The Persistent Cloaca

National Board of Examinations Journal of Medical Sciences
Normally, at birth, females have separate perineal orifices for the urinary, reproductive and digestive tracts, while males have individual openings for the urogenital and digestive tracts.
Jayant Radhakrishnan, Rahul Gupta, Shumyle Alam, Anthony C. Chin   +3 more
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Persistent cloaca and caudal duplication in a monovular twin, a rare case report. [PDF]

Int J Surg Case Rep, 2019
© 2019 Introduction: A cloaca occurs when genitourinary tract and bowel converge into a common channel. We report a case of partial caudal duplication, persistent cloaca and vestigial appendage in a monovular female twin infant.
Cohen N, Ahmed MN, Goldfischer R, Zaghloul N.   +3 more
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Clinical experience with persistent cloaca. [PDF]

J Korean Surg Soc, 2011
Persistent cloaca is one of the most severe types of anorectal malformation. Appropriate initial drainage is difficult due to their various malformations and hydrocolpos or dilated urinary bladder. Corrective surgery also differs among individual patients.
Cho MJ, Kim TH, Kim DY, Kim SC, Kim IK.
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Efficacy of vesicostomy for refractory metabolic acidosis in persistent cloaca. [PDF]

CEN Case Rep, 2022
Persistent cloaca involves fusion of the bladder, vagina, and rectum into a single duct called the common duct. Although its pathogenesis remains unclear, it has been associated with hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis. Herein, we present the case of a neonatal girl with high-confluence type variant of persistent cloaca treated with vesicostomy (Blocksom)
Okada S, Miyazono A, Inaba Y, Eura R, Itesako T, Kawano Y, Okamoto Y.   +6 more
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Diagnosis of Persistent Cloaca by Ultrasonography and MRI: A Case Report. [PDF]

Am J Case Rep, 2020
BACKGROUND Persistent cloacal malformations are rare anomalies that are anorectal malformations occurring in females. In cases of persistent cloaca, prenatal ultrasonography shows fetal ascites, cystic tumor in the abdomen, oligohydramnios, and hydronephrosis. There are various types of persistent cloaca, and symptoms vary.
Kawamura T, Kamo A, Nishiguchi T.
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Persistent cloaca: persistence of the challenge [PDF]

Annals of Pediatric Surgery, 2020
Abstract Background Persistent cloaca or cloacal anomalies represent a special category of anorectal anomalies affecting the female sex with a reported incidence of about one in 25,000 live birth. The study included 34 cases of cloaca that were managed at our unit between 2003 through 2017.
Amr Abdelhamid AbouZeid, Ahmed Radwan, Mohamed Eldebeiky, Sameh Abdel Hay   +3 more
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Persistent Cloaca [PDF]

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 2001
Hydrometrocolpos is a rare congenital disorder in which excessive mucus secretions accumulate from a genital tract obstruction resulting in cystic dilatation of the vagina and uterus. The spectrum of hydrometrocolpos is broad, ranging from mild cases undetected until adolescence to more severe conditions described prenatally as a large pelviabdominal ...
Steven R. Baier, Edward S. Tank, Peter T. Watson   +2 more
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Mutational analyses of UPIIIA, SHH, EFNB2 and HNF1beta in persistent cloaca and associated kidney malformations. [PDF]

J Pediatr Urol, 2007
Objectives: 'Persistent cloaca' is a severe malformation affecting females in which the urinary, genital and alimentary tracts share a single conduit. Previously, a Uroplakin IIIA (UPIIIA) mutation was reported in one individual with persistent cloaca ...
Jenkins D, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Thomasson L, Malcolm S, Warne SA, Feather SA, Flanagan SE, Ellard S, Bingham C, Santos L, Henkemeyer M, Zinn A, Baker LA, Wilcox DT, Woolf AS.   +14 more
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Prenatal ultrasound manifestations of partial urorectal septum malformation sequence from the first trimester to postnatal: a case report

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background Urorectal septum malformation sequence (URSMS) is characterized by incomplete partitioning of the genital, rectal, and urinary tracts, resulting in a severe form of anorectal malformation. The partial URSMS, also known as the persistent cloaca,
Lingna She, Hualan Lin, Shuxian Huang, Lina Liu, Liyan Chen   +4 more
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Persistent hyper-programs [PDF]

, 2011
This work was supported by ESPRIT III Basic Research Action 6309 – FIDE 2 and SERC grant GR/F 02953.The traditional representation of a program as a linear sequence of text forces a particular style of program construction to ensure good programming ...
Dearle, Alan, Farkas, AM, Connor, RCH, Morrison, Ronald, Kirby, Graham Njal Cameron, Cutts, QI   +5 more
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