Infected urachal remnants: an unusual presentation

The urachus is the remnant of the cloaca and allantois, and attaches the umbilicus to the bladder dome. Urachal anomalies are symptomatically identified during childhood. It rarely occurs in adults, making diagnosis difficult. We present and discuss the case of an infected patent urachus in a 30-yea...

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Autores principales: Ramos Pacheco, Victor Hugo, Dominguez, Yolanda Saldaña, Cervantes Sánchez, Alicia Maria del Consuelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150226
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author Ramos Pacheco, Victor Hugo
Dominguez, Yolanda Saldaña
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description The urachus is the remnant of the cloaca and allantois, and attaches the umbilicus to the bladder dome. Urachal anomalies are symptomatically identified during childhood. It rarely occurs in adults, making diagnosis difficult. We present and discuss the case of an infected patent urachus in a 30-year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-61808882018-10-25 Infected urachal remnants: an unusual presentation Ramos Pacheco, Victor Hugo Dominguez, Yolanda Saldaña Cervantes Sánchez, Alicia Maria del Consuelo BJR Case Rep Case Report The urachus is the remnant of the cloaca and allantois, and attaches the umbilicus to the bladder dome. Urachal anomalies are symptomatically identified during childhood. It rarely occurs in adults, making diagnosis difficult. We present and discuss the case of an infected patent urachus in a 30-year-old male. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6180888/ /pubmed/30363670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150226 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Infected urachal remnants: an unusual presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150226
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