15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report

BACKGROUND: Teenage and late presentation of anorectal malformations are not uncommon in developing world. Some of the reasons for late presentation include but not limited to illiteracy, poverty, lack of awareness, and limited trained pediatric surgeons. In rural areas, neonates with ARMs are consi...

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Autores principales: Oyania, Felix, Kotagal, Meera, Situma, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33632306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02717-5
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description BACKGROUND: Teenage and late presentation of anorectal malformations are not uncommon in developing world. Some of the reasons for late presentation include but not limited to illiteracy, poverty, lack of awareness, and limited trained pediatric surgeons. In rural areas, neonates with ARMs are considered cursed and are marginalized. CASE: 15-Year-old African girl (a munyankole by tribe in Uganda) from western Uganda presented at 15 years of life with colostomy and uncorrected anorectal malformation. Never went to school due to social stigma. CONCLUSION: Due to limited number of trained pediatric surgeons in most of African Countries, many children in addition to living with a colostomy or untreated malformation, may also be undiagnosed with chronic constipation. Improved awareness and advocacy would promote early presentation and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-79087862021-02-26 15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report Oyania, Felix Kotagal, Meera Situma, Martin J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Teenage and late presentation of anorectal malformations are not uncommon in developing world. Some of the reasons for late presentation include but not limited to illiteracy, poverty, lack of awareness, and limited trained pediatric surgeons. In rural areas, neonates with ARMs are considered cursed and are marginalized. CASE: 15-Year-old African girl (a munyankole by tribe in Uganda) from western Uganda presented at 15 years of life with colostomy and uncorrected anorectal malformation. Never went to school due to social stigma. CONCLUSION: Due to limited number of trained pediatric surgeons in most of African Countries, many children in addition to living with a colostomy or untreated malformation, may also be undiagnosed with chronic constipation. Improved awareness and advocacy would promote early presentation and treatment. BioMed Central 2021-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7908786/ /pubmed/33632306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02717-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full 15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report
title_fullStr 15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report
title_full_unstemmed 15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report
title_short 15-Year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western Uganda: a case report
title_sort 15-year-old with neglected recto-vestibular fistula in western uganda: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7908786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33632306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02717-5
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