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Hutch diverticulum presenting as acute urinary retention in early life
Bhupendra Pal Singh1, Deepak Sharanappa Nagathan, Satyanarayan Sankhwar
1Department of Urology, Chhatrapati Shahuji Mahraj Medical University (Upgraded Erstwhile King George Medical College), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract:
There are only a few reports of recurrent acute urinary retention caused by obstruction from congenital paraureteral diverticulum. We review the literature and present a case of a 14-month-old boy with bilateral hutch diverticuli who had his first episode of acute urinary retention in the neonatal period caused by left-sided diverticulum. We emphasised the fact that hutch diverticulum should be considered as one of the possible differential diagnoses in a child presenting with acute urinary retention.
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