Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

We present the case of a 13-year-old boy with a congenital anterior urethral diverticulum. This is a rare condition in males which can lead to obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms and urosepsis. Diagnosis is by urethroscopy and radiological imaging. Surgical treatment can be open or endoscopic....

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Autores principales: Quoraishi, Sadat Haider, Khan, Faisal, Besarani, Dler, Patil, Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/738638
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description We present the case of a 13-year-old boy with a congenital anterior urethral diverticulum. This is a rare condition in males which can lead to obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms and urosepsis. Diagnosis is by urethroscopy and radiological imaging. Surgical treatment can be open or endoscopic. Long-term followup is required to check for reoccurrence of the obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-33502162012-05-17 Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Quoraishi, Sadat Haider Khan, Faisal Besarani, Dler Patil, Krishna Case Rep Urol Case Report We present the case of a 13-year-old boy with a congenital anterior urethral diverticulum. This is a rare condition in males which can lead to obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms and urosepsis. Diagnosis is by urethroscopy and radiological imaging. Surgical treatment can be open or endoscopic. Long-term followup is required to check for reoccurrence of the obstruction. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3350216/ /pubmed/22606624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/738638 Text en Copyright © 2011 Sadat Haider Quoraishi 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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Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Congenital Anterior Urethral Diverticulum in a Male Teenager: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort congenital anterior urethral diverticulum in a male teenager: a case report and review of the literature
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/738638
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