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Pelin Oğuzkurt1, Semire Serin Ozalevli, Murat Alkan
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. poguzkurt@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Duplication of the bladder is an unusual congenital anomaly. Complete and incomplete forms are well defined in published reports. We present an unusual case of a 3-year-old boy with two separate-walled bladders, one lying in front of the other, communicating through a tiny septum, at the neck of the primary bladder that drained to a normal single urethra. This type of isolated bladder anomaly was not defined in the classification of the duplication of the bladder. In patients with a lower abdominal cystic mass, complete bladder duplication must be included in the differential diagnosis of pelvic cystic masses.
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