An Infected Urachal Cyst in an Adult Woman

The urachus is an embryologic remnant which degenerates after the birth. Defective obliteration of the urachus leads to urachal abnormalities. An infected urachal cyst is one of the urachal abnormalities and this pathology is rare in adult women. We report a case of 33-year-old woman with pelvic pai...

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Autores principales: Kaya, Serdar, Bacanakgıl, Besim Haluk, Soyman, Zeynep, Kerımova, Roya, Battal Havare, Semiha, Kaya, Başak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26167317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/791408
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author Kaya, Serdar
Bacanakgıl, Besim Haluk
Soyman, Zeynep
Kerımova, Roya
Battal Havare, Semiha
Kaya, Başak
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description The urachus is an embryologic remnant which degenerates after the birth. Defective obliteration of the urachus leads to urachal abnormalities. An infected urachal cyst is one of the urachal abnormalities and this pathology is rare in adult women. We report a case of 33-year-old woman with pelvic pain and dysuria who was diagnosed with infected urachal cyst. Infected urachal cyst is a rare pathology in adult women and this pathology should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen.
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spelling pubmed-44885812015-07-12 An Infected Urachal Cyst in an Adult Woman Kaya, Serdar Bacanakgıl, Besim Haluk Soyman, Zeynep Kerımova, Roya Battal Havare, Semiha Kaya, Başak Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report The urachus is an embryologic remnant which degenerates after the birth. Defective obliteration of the urachus leads to urachal abnormalities. An infected urachal cyst is one of the urachal abnormalities and this pathology is rare in adult women. We report a case of 33-year-old woman with pelvic pain and dysuria who was diagnosed with infected urachal cyst. Infected urachal cyst is a rare pathology in adult women and this pathology should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4488581/ /pubmed/26167317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/791408 Text en Copyright © 2015 Serdar Kaya 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488581/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/791408
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