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Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder

Hourglass bladder is a definition used to describe a particular configuration of the urinary bladder, divided into two compartments, upper and lower, communicating through a narrowed segment resembling an hourglass. It may be due to various conditions, such as bladder diverticula, bladder neck obstr...

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Autores principales: Comisi, Francesco F, Esposito, Elena, Manca, Valeria, Masnata, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38021820
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47772
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author Comisi, Francesco F
Esposito, Elena
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Masnata, Giuseppe
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description Hourglass bladder is a definition used to describe a particular configuration of the urinary bladder, divided into two compartments, upper and lower, communicating through a narrowed segment resembling an hourglass. It may be due to various conditions, such as bladder diverticula, bladder neck obstruction, neurogenic bladder, or other abnormalities. Congenital hourglass bladder is an extremely rare anomaly. To the best of our knowledge, only 24 cases have been reported. We present the case of a 2-year-old male, probably the youngest patient with congenital hourglass bladder ever recorded. We aim to increase knowledge about the incidence of this likely underdiagnosed condition and its management and stress the importance of long-term follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-106764612023-10-26 Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder Comisi, Francesco F Esposito, Elena Manca, Valeria Masnata, Giuseppe Cureus Pediatrics Hourglass bladder is a definition used to describe a particular configuration of the urinary bladder, divided into two compartments, upper and lower, communicating through a narrowed segment resembling an hourglass. It may be due to various conditions, such as bladder diverticula, bladder neck obstruction, neurogenic bladder, or other abnormalities. Congenital hourglass bladder is an extremely rare anomaly. To the best of our knowledge, only 24 cases have been reported. We present the case of a 2-year-old male, probably the youngest patient with congenital hourglass bladder ever recorded. We aim to increase knowledge about the incidence of this likely underdiagnosed condition and its management and stress the importance of long-term follow-up. Cureus 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10676461/ /pubmed/38021820 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47772 Text en Copyright © 2023, Comisi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Comisi, Francesco F
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Manca, Valeria
Masnata, Giuseppe
Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title_full Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title_fullStr Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title_full_unstemmed Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title_short Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Urology: A Case Report and Literature Review on Hourglass Bladder
title_sort diagnostic challenges in pediatric urology: a case report and literature review on hourglass bladder
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38021820
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47772
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