Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy

A 38 year-old woman presented with a dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy at gestational age of 32 weeks concerning for an abdominal wall mass in one of the twins. Initial ultrasound evaluation was suspicious for an omphalocele, but the affected twin was found to have bladder exstrophy at birth. Th...

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Autores principales: Tu, William, Chueh, Jane, Kennedy, William
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2742653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/186483
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description A 38 year-old woman presented with a dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy at gestational age of 32 weeks concerning for an abdominal wall mass in one of the twins. Initial ultrasound evaluation was suspicious for an omphalocele, but the affected twin was found to have bladder exstrophy at birth. This illustrates the difficulties of accurate prenatal diagnosis of bladder exstrophy in a twin pregnancy at a late gestation.
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spelling pubmed-27426532009-09-14 Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy Tu, William Chueh, Jane Kennedy, William Adv Urol Case Report A 38 year-old woman presented with a dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy at gestational age of 32 weeks concerning for an abdominal wall mass in one of the twins. Initial ultrasound evaluation was suspicious for an omphalocele, but the affected twin was found to have bladder exstrophy at birth. This illustrates the difficulties of accurate prenatal diagnosis of bladder exstrophy in a twin pregnancy at a late gestation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2742653/ /pubmed/19753322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/186483 Text en Copyright © 2009 William Tu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title_full Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title_fullStr Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title_full_unstemmed Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title_short Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy
title_sort dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy discordant for bladder exstrophy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2742653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/186483
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